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...Lockheed statement claimed that payments were necessary to its success in some sales overseas but did not list the specific payments. This secrecy was defended by the assertion that "disclosure could have a serious impact on several hundred million dollars of the company's present backlog" of $1.6 billion in foreign orders. Haughton denied both Senate committees access to the details: "Attempting to establish names of recipients or attempting to prove that payments had been received in specific foreign countries would be unfair, would serve no useful purpose and would cause a maximum amount of harm." (August 25 hearings...
...amounts to is a thoroughgoing confusion about the limits of ethnic particularism in a democratic society. There is no better guide to understanding this difficult issue than David Riesman, who, over a generation ago, recognized that a style of give-and-take is a crucial feature of America's success at fashioning pluralistic solutions to the conflicting claims of its numerous ethnic subcultures. Over time this process has allowed successive generations of Americans to design a dialectically unique cultural-political synthesis which is general or universal enough to sustain a successful nation-state yet parochial enough to nourish a kaleidoscopic...
That program ended in 1974, but its success led to the creation of a similar program for the benefit of local police and law students, Kumins said...
Many Bicentennial promotions are having early success. "Anything under $5 sells like crazy," says Jamie Goodchild, proprietor of Heritage Shop in Boston's historic Faneuil Hall. He stocks inexpensive "antique" flasks, walking sticks and fife-and-drum records along with quality pewter. But there are doubts over all the Bicentennial schlock...
...emergencies. Bob Bateman is the name of this supposedly terrific player, fresh from a record-setting performance two years ago in Vermont--just before the school dropped its football program. To paraphrase everybody else who has written on the issue, he is the key to Brown's possible success this year...