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...economic leaders, brought to the U.S. by TIME, met and questioned many policymakers, including Treasury Secretary John Connally, Secretary of State William P. Rogers, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills, and Senators Mike Mansfield, Hugh Scott, Hubert Humphrey, Edward Kennedy, Henry Jackson and Jacob Javits. The businessmen then spent a morning discussing with TIME editors and correspondents their conclusions about the future...
...Brussels and Paris, U.S. ambassadors and their aides summoned groups of resident U.S. businessmen to advise them that foreign governments actually approved of the Nixon program and that the U.S. position should be, "We don't apologize for anything." Speaking at a Paris news conference last week, Senator Jacob Javits invoked what has become the World War II reparations argument. "Europe still owes us a great deal," he said...
...more notable of the two escapees was Joel David Kaplan, 44, a New York businessman and nephew of Molasses Tycoon Jacob M. Kaplan, whose J.M. Kaplan Fund was named in a 1964 congressional investigation as a conduit for CIA money for Latin America. The younger Kaplan had been convicted in 1962 for the Mexico City murder of his New York business partner, Louis Vidal Jr. Kaplan claimed at the trial that Vidal, who had been involved in narcotics and gunrunning, had constructed an elaborate plot to disappear. The murder victim, Kaplan maintained, was not even Vidal, and indeed, serious doubts...
...James Bond. At week's end neither man had been caught. Kaplan's Mexican attorney declared that his client was a CIA agent and that the rescue had been engineered by the agency. But a spokesman for Jacob Kaplan pooh-poohed all that. "People are determined to substitute James Bond for the Kaplan family name," he said, though he could offer no explanation of just who had carried out the spectacular stunt. In Mexico, meanwhile, Attorney General Julio Sanchez Vargas was forced to resign, and prison officials and all 136 guards were arrested for questioning. The movie, after...
...concerned group, for instance, is the 125,000-member Council of Engineers and Scientists, whose membership has been hard hit by mass layoffs in the aerospace industry. This week, as vacationing Congressmen meet their constituents, pensions will undoubtedly register high among the topics of voter concern. New York Senator Jacob Javits reports that his mail on the subject runs second only to Viet...