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...Secretary will have to be equally resourceful at the Labor Department. Business groups will want him to rein in pesky regulatory agencies like the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Unions will want him to resist those pressures and to quash the idea, popular among businessmen, of a lower minimum wage for youths. While declining to take a stand on such issues before his confirmation hearing, Donovan does say that he thinks reducing the Government's role in the economy is crucial. Says he: "We no longer have the best and the cheapest. We must get back to work...
...fugitive Financier Robert Vesco, 44, however, boating is only a pastime. He devotes his main energies to trying to quash federal indictments that charge him with looting an estimated $224 million from Geneva-based Investors Overseas Services, Ltd., in the early 1970s, and then trying to stifle an SEC inquiry into his activities by illegally donating $200,000 to Richard Nixon's re-election campaign. (Former Attorney General John Mitchell and Campaign Finance Chairman Maurice Stans, who were indicted along with Vesco, were acquitted in 1974. Though Vesco is safe from extradition from the Bahamas, where he fled...
...disorder, such as the food-price riots that rocked Poland in 1970. There are also garrisons outside the capitals of the Central Asian republics. The soldiers stationed there, in the main, are from other parts of the country rather than local boys; if they were ever ordered to quash an uprising, they would not be firing on their ethnic kinsmen...
Despite these problems, the Soviet military is likely to become even more formidable in the '80s. If nothing else, it is gaining its first intensive combat experience since World War II in trying to quash guerrilla opposition in Afghanistan. Although it now appears that Soviet forces are having more trouble than they probably anticipated, Western military experts believe that the initial invasion was an impressive military operation. The Soviet forces, which were commanded by Marshal Sergei Sokolov, 68, demonstrated that they had mastered the techniques of airlifting enormous quantities of men and supplies, coordinating air and ground attacks, and controlling...
Kissinger did his best to quash rumors of a secret mission when he arrived in Cairo, accompanied by Wife Nancy and Son David, 17. Modestly describing himself as a "private citizen," he insisted that he was "not here with an agenda." His trip was actually prompted by the decision of Hebrew University to give him an honorary doctorate, which he will receive this week in Jerusalem...