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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week Miller handily passed the test. After five weeks of slipshod investigation, the staff of the Senate Banking Committee had compiled 1,400 pages of testimony and evidence about alleged bribery by Textron to push sales of its Bell helicopters in Iran; leaks had inspired innuendo-filled stories in the press. But in nearly four hours of face-to-face grilling, Miller convinced the Senators that there was no proof that Textron had in effect resorted to bribery, and still less that he as boss had condoned it. In a stinging rebuke to its own chairman, Wisconsin Democrat William...
...Taxi. The money was paid as a form of commission at about the time of a sale in 1973 of $500 million worth of helicopters to the Iranian government. The payment itself was legal and no secret; Textron openly recorded it on the books. But Proxmire and the committee staff claimed to have evidence that Air Taxi was secretly partially owned by General Mohammed Khatemi, former head of the Iranian air force and the Shah's brother-in-law. The suspicion was that the payment was actually a bribe to Khatemi to get him to approve the sale...
...offers an extensive library that lists both summer and full time job openings and has a staff of full-time counselors available for consultation and advice...
...prank we played on Henry Kissinger is given an odd and nasty twist for no apparent reason. Ordinary, glossy movie promotion pictures of Jill St. John, one of Henry's beautiful dates, were put into file folders, then given captions by several of the staff as we rode together on Air Force One. and periodically sent to Henry by messenger. Miss St. John was, in fact, fully clothed in all the photos. Haldeman has written that the pictures were nudes and that I forged "presidential memos to Henry complete with Nixon's 'bizarre demands' for certain types of action." That...
...Yitzhak Rabin makes virtually the same point: "I believe Sadat's conditions in his Knesset speech were his opening position. But Begin started out with Israel's end position. What was he thinking of?" Even Begin's resolute cheerfulness is being criticized. "His unflagging optimism," declares former Chief of Staff Haim BarLev, "is unfounded...