Word: itt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...source of the charges was that well-known dealer in secret memos, Washington Columnist Jack Anderson. Last week Anderson published a summary of a personal memo, purportedly written by ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard, that linked the favorable antitrust settlement with ITT's pledge to underwrite some of the convention costs. Addressed to William R. Merriam, head of ITT's Washington office, the memo refers to Mrs. Beard's accosting Attorney General Mitchell at a party thrown by former Kentucky Governor Louie Nunn in Louisville after the 1971 Kentucky Derby...
Talking Freely. Mitchell had indicated to her, the memo said, that the settlement would turn out favorably for ITT. "Certainly the President has told Mitchell to see that things are worked out fairly," Mrs. Beard wrote. But, she warned Merriam, ITT officials were talking too freely about the $400,000 commitment, and if there was any more publicity, Mitchell might back away. So why didn't ITT put up the money and get its executives to shut up? The memo ends with the suggestion that Merriam destroy...
...lied outright last year when he denied-in reply to a letter from Democratic National Committee Chairman Lawrence O'Brien-any connection between the convention cash and the antitrust settlement and insisted that neither he nor Mitchell had played any role in the department's negotiations with ITT. On the contrary, Anderson wrote, Kleindienst had in fact held several meetings on the case with ITT Director Felix Rohatyn before the settlement was reached...
Anderson's charges and the memo set Washington buzzing with rumor and speculation. It was no secret in the capital that ITT had given $100,000 -through its subsidiary the Sheraton Corp.-to the G.O.P. and was considering giving more. It was also known that the money for the convention had been pledged only eight days before the Justice Department's favorable ruling. At the time, the department's Antitrust Division was under Richard McLaren, an exceptionally tough prosecutor who is now a federal judge in Chicago. The division had been furiously attacking ITT's earlier...
...Ruckelshaus startled the mayors of Atlanta, Detroit and Cleveland by giving them 180 days to come up with a plan to correct water-quality violations-or else. In ensuing months, he ordered action taken against some 185 other water polluters, including Armco Steel, U.S. Steel, Koppers, U.S. Plywood-Champion, ITT Rayonier and a host of municipalities. The agency recently broke all precedent by getting a federal court order forcing 23 plants in Birmingham to cut back on production during a five-day temperature inversion that was creating dangerous air pollution. Mercury discharges, thermal pollution, auto emissions-under Ruckelshaus' direction...