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...Phan Rang last week excitedly queued up to cast what were, for almost all of them, their first ballots. When the free, secret election was over, they had chosen a ten-person "workers' council" to deal with their employer, the U.S. construction combine, which is led by Morrison-Knudsen of Boise, Idaho, and known as RMK-BRJ.* Far from fighting the unionization, the combine sponsored it as one way to ease around a barrier it had not bargained for: labor unrest...
...Raymond International of Manhattan, Morrison-Knudsen, Brown & Root of Houston, and J. A. Jones of Charlotte...
...pass, the skilled among them can make up to 93 piasters ($1.27) an hour. As for the Americans, they do not seem to be very hard to recruit, are motivated both by patriotism and by tax-free wages that run about 25% higher than in the U.S. When Morrison-Knudsen recently queried its U.S.-based employees about going to Viet Nam, 58 of the 60 men working on a missile site in Grand Forks, N. Dak., volunteered to go. Once in Viet Nam, the men more than earn their money. They must sign up for 18 months, work...
...hurls the epithet "American stooge" at Construction Magnate Demirel, who was Menderes' director of waterworks, later becoming consultant for Morrison-Knudsen. Demirel counters that Inönü in four years did virtually nothing to raise Turkey's standard of living. "We must get Turkey moving again!" he proclaims. The military, which holds the real balance of power, still bans any direct reference to the slain strongman or the use of his Democratic Party's name, but Demirel's Justice Party uses as its symbol an iron-grey horse-and the word for that, in dialect...
...HARVEY P. KNUDSEN...