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...Federal District Courthouse in Manhattan one day last week walked the attorneys of Bethlehem Steel, the nation's second largest steelmaker (1979 sales: $7.1 billion) and a major ship repairer. They came on a painfully embarrassing mission. On behalf of their company, they entered a guilty plea to an eleven-page statement of criminal offenses. The charges: during the lean years of tanker building and repair that followed the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo, Bethlehem engaged in a complex conspiracy that resulted in the payment of bribes of at least $400,000 to shipowners and agents in return...
...Hooks to speak at the convention that evening, but only after Hooks promised to say nothing that might embarrass the Republicans. Hooks urged the Republicans to work for full employment, low-cost public transportation and an extension of the Voting Rights Act, which is to expire in 1982. His plea was politely received by the delegates?again on instructions from Reagan's floor lieutenants...
...sense of patriotism. ("He had to be motivated to give up a hell of a lot," Kissinger explained later.) One of those in the party described the former Secretary's role throughout the evening as "alternately being a very dear friend of Ford and next using the plea of national emergency." Urged Kissinger at one point: "The country needs you." Replied Ford: "But, Henry, it won't work...
...brought him the document, he was interested, but he still doubted its feasibility. "Maybe there's a way," he said about a new vice-presidential role, "but I don't think there is." It was now nearing 5 p.m., and, as Ford received yet another personal plea from the Governors and from members of Congress, he began to grow testy-which is not his nature. Yet he had now gone 34 hours with only four hours of sleep, and weariness was taking its toll...
...Bottom" ghetto that produced Joe Louis and was once an organizer for the United Auto Workers, bargained hard but at week's end settled for a draw. A new pact gave the workers less than they had asked but more than the mayor had offered?despite Young's repeated plea that "I ain't got no more goddam money...