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...mainly to meet operational expenses. GM's outside directors have become so concerned in recent months that they have begun to meet privately, without the company's officers. They have reportedly put Stempel on notice that his own 16-month tenure, as well as those of GM president Lloyd Ruess and chief financial officer Robert O'Connell, are under close scrutiny. Says a board source: "They are down to a real cash-flow problem now. All the money is out of the mattress...
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That was last February. In March U.S. G-men in Portland, Ore. arrested a young Russian naval officer, Nikolai Redin, for spying. Next month Moscow police called Ruess, who had almost forgotten the Army Day episode, and summoned him to court. The charge: khuliganstvo (hooliganism...
Technically embassy clerks are not diplomatically immune. But Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith, aware that Washington grants a courtesy immunity to all embassy personnel, refused to surrender Ruess. The Russians insisted. Ambassador Smith demanded an exit visa for his clerk. The Russians refused. Last week, with Clerk Ruess confined to Embassy grounds, the khuligan crisis was at a standoff. Meanwhile, spy-suspect Redin, under $10,000 bail bond, was awaiting trial (on June...