Word: itt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington. There are so many separate investigations of Watergate and related affairs that they are bound to conflict. Cox had reportedly asked the grand jury to put off the indictments for a week so that Ehrlichman could be brought to Washington to testify further on Watergate, the ITT scandal, and probably on the Ellsberg break-in and other plumbers' activities. Now that he has been indicted, Ehrlichman has grounds for keeping silent, at least in regard to the Ellsberg burglary case. His attorneys, in fact, asked the federal district court in Washington to quash the subpoena; testifying...
...other hand, those polled viewed a number of recent political misdeeds as "routine." These included the attempts to sabotage the campaigns of Democratic presidential candidates and the evidence that the Nixon Administration gave ITT a favorable antitrust settlement in return for a $400,000 Republican Convention pledge...
...Sovereign State of ITT, Sampson...
...DELIVERING the goods, ITT and other multinationals have helped to bind the world into the single economic network social anaaysts have predicted for centuries--Sampson has a particularly good passage on the Americanization of ITT employees--and in so doing, these companies have helped bind the world in a tighter political network, as well. Chilean workers face the accumulated strength of American capital; at the same time, though Sampson doesn't stress this much, American capital faces the emerging strength of Chilean workers. For if it is true that ITT proposed to devote its American profits to defeating revolution...
...time when this strength is so blatant and so blatantly used, its source is easily forgotten. But forgetting would be a mistake. ITT's accomplishments in helping to build the economy of Chile, detailed by a company spokesman on the August 8 New York Time's Op-Ed page and implicit in The Sovereign State, are as real as its efforts to help the CIA tear down that economy yesterday and today. American capital, applied by firms like ITT, has increased people's power--over nature, and over other people--to an extent unthinkable to the giants of the past...