Word: itt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Heads. Last week wildcat strikes spread from Portuguese firms to several American and other foreign companies that built factories in Portugal to employ cheap labor. Workers struck the Timex and Bayer corporations, demanding more than 50% raises. All four Firestone tire plants were shut down by discontented employees, while ITT executives bargained anxiously to head off a walkout at the semiconductor plant in Cascais. "The workers are looking for heads to roll," said a nervous Dutch director of ITT. "The situation could erupt at any moment...
...against Citizen Nixon of obstruction of justice, subornation of perjury, conspiracy, and perhaps misprision of a felony and bribery. Beyond crimes relating to the Watergate coverup, the President must also consider that criminal allegations could result from some or all of the ongoing investigations into his tax declarations, the ITT affair, the milk fund, the purported sale of ambassadorships, and the Ellsberg psychiatrist breakin. Moreover, there are the lesser specters of disbarment proceedings, endless appearances as a witness in the trials of others, and civil suits by various individuals who were bugged on presidential orders, or even by taxpayers challenging...
...White House also gave no sign that it would comply with the Judiciary Committee's request for tapes of 142 additional conversations between Nixon and aides. The tapes bear on the Watergate coverup, the Administration's 1971 decision to increase milk-price supports and its antitrust settlement with ITT that year. St. Clair urged the committee to study the transcripts before demanding more evidence. He declined to say how the White House would respond if the committee pressed...
...begin May 7. Chairman Rodino acknowledged that the committee has asked for-but not yet subpoenaed-some 79 additional tapes and other documents from the White House bearing on the Watergate coverup, the Administration's 1971 decision to increase milk price supports and its antitrust settlement with ITT Corp. that year...
...Nixon's possible involvement in the Watergate coverup, his connections with the White House undercover team known as the plumbers and with the dirty-tricks operations of his 1972 re-election campaign committee and charges that he and his staff promised favors in return for campaign contributions from ITT Corp., the milk producers, Fugitive Financier Robert...