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...wrongdoing regarding these funds. Thus the net effect of the whole episode may be to emphasize a fact long familiar in Washington: the little maritime unions are some of the biggest and boldest political spenders around. "No one is busier on Capitol Hill," says a congressional staffer who handles merchant marine matters. "The maritime guys are everywhere, passing out bucks like there is no tomorrow...
...maritime unions contribute so heavily? The answer is simply that they need ever greater federal subsidies in order to keep the dwindling U.S. merchant fleet afloat. As Paul Hall, the crusty president of the Seafarers, puts it, "Politics is pork chops...
Carter accused the Administration of being insensitive to moral concerns, of "supporting dictatorships [and] ignoring human rights" in its foreign policy, of becoming "the arms merchant of the world." In fact, U.S. sales of weapons overseas increased from $1 billion in fiscal 1970 to $11.6 billion in 1974, but they dropped to $8.4 billion in fiscal 1976. With some hyperbole, Carter also dragged out all the skeletons in the Nixon and Ford administrations' closets-the invasion of Cambodia, the right-wing coup in Chile, the covert support of anti-Communists in Angola, and even...
After consultation with Alexis Lichine, famed oenophile (The New Encyclopedia of Wines & Spirits), grower (Cháteau Prieure-Lichine), and wine merchant, TIME Paris Bureau Chief Gregory Wierzynski cabled this vatside evaluation from the major regions...
...proxy, eventually coming to make easy money through the South's cheap raw materials--oil, timber, coal, cotton--and cheap, uneducated labor. And the people who had fought the war, the dirt farmers, were ruled over by their own brothers. The rich planters on the land and the merchant lackeys in the towns did the bidding of their New York and Chicago masters. Poor white people stood up for their rights, in the North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia textile strikes of the 1920s and '30s, and they were beaten and gunned down just like uppity Negroes. One cold comfort eased...