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...resignation satisfied only two-thirds of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. clean up or get out orders. The house was still not clean: Klenert, in resigning, had woven an agreement for $104,000 in severance pay as a quid pro quo for leaving quickly. But at week's end that too was settled. The union's executive board voted to give Klenert the skid without a quid...
...even sued for libel-probably because nobody takes him that seriously. He has no paid professional legmen, but he finds policemen "fantastic sources-after all, they've got eight hours to watch four blocks," and admits that press-agents give.him tips and check items for him on a quid pro quo basis. The quo: "Tickets for a play, or maybe a member of their family needs...
Along with the offer to surrender these functions went a healthy quid pro quo: to finance them at the state level, the U.S. was prepared to relinquish to the states roughly a half share of federal inheritance and gift taxes ($1.3 billion this year), and about $542 million in excise taxes collected on such items as telephone calls and theater tickets...
...Kingdom there were those, particularly among his peers, who felt Altrincham had got off a lot too easily. In Bow Street court next morning, the slapper proved to be a paid agent of a group of nostalgics who call themselves The League of Empire Loyalists. He was fined a quid ($2.80) for his violence, but the sentiment that prompted it-disgust at a young peer who had dared to call his Queen a prig in print (TIME, Aug. 12) -was echoed even in the words of the sentencing magistrate, who declared that "95% of the population of this country...
...CHINCOM, maintain lists of items that can be marketed to the Soviet European bloc or to Red China, and in what amounts. The U.S. is prepared to negotiate off the stricter Chinese list such items as its fellow members, particularly Britain and Japan, want to remove. As a quid pro quo, and to help narrow the gap between the two sets of controls, some additional items may be added to the list covering the Soviet European bloc...