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...terrified that the Cubans are going to kill Townley before he ever gets to the grand jury," because he theoretically knows a lot of behind-the-scenes information on both the anti-Castro Cubans and DINA. "I think that he's the kind of character that could plea bargain for a lesser charge, and talk about the other people," Moffitt claimed prior to the report last week that Townley is indeed prepared to talk in order to reduce his sentence. "Although the problem with that is, if he does, he'll never sleep again or else he'll sleep permanently...
...unlikely, as his re-election at week's end proved without question. But those final sentences in Carrillo's wide-ranging opening report to the party's ninth congress in Madrid last week, the first held in Spain since 1932, did carry something of a plea. In effect, he asked the more than 1,400 delegates to endorse a political line that, by Communist criteria, continues to be nothing less than adventurous...
...Renewed his plea to labor and industry to bring wage and price increases below the average of the past two years. Carter specifically called on high executives to freeze their own salaries and bonuses as a kind of anti-inflationary example to the troops. He added that the Council on Wage and Price Stability will begin a series of meetings with executives in the steel, paper, aluminum, railroad and other industries to formulate goals for wage-price boosts...
...renewed plea to unions and industry to hold down wage-price boosts, at least implying more frequent and vigorous Administration jawboning of offenders. The Administration last week did score a preliminary jawboning victory. After President Carter himself and some other officials had denounced as inflationary an average $10.50-a-ton price increase by U.S. Steel, the company announced that it would peel back to be "competitive" with other steelmakers that raised prices only...
...only $5.50 a ton, which COWPS pronounced "acceptable." The smaller increase was quickly matched by several other companies, including Bethlehem Steel, No. 2 in the industry, without whose support U.S. Steel cannot make the bigger raise stick. For the record, U.S. Steel vowed to resist any Government rollback plea. But at week's end Strauss phoned Speer, and after he hung up, Administration officials announced that they expected Big Steel "to remain competitive," that is, shave its increase...