Word: suspect
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Talmadge had his committee staff show Champion's responses to Walsh, who disagreed with them. Later, Walsh submitted an affadavit giving his version of the incidents that led to his resignation. The committee staff also suspected that the directives from Califano and Champion to put the investigation under the General Counsel's Office were the result of pressure from California's governor or congressional delegation. The Congressional committees had been under pressure to go easy on probes into California Medicare fraud, so Talmadge and company reasoned that HEW could have been responding to similar pressure. Champion's ties to California...
...would be thrown out of work and certain games would be canceled. No disaster. Other troubled hockey teams, like the Pittsburgh Penguins, might also be seduced toward bankruptcy. No delight. Finally and critically, the deferred-income contract-basis of six-figure salaries in all sports-would at once become suspect. Who could sign a long-term deal with a team that might disappear in the short term...
...French party, too, still has among its top leadership men who were once staunch Stalinists. Marchais himself is a new (and in some quarters suspect) convert to the more liberal tenets of Euro-Communism. The French Communists were stung by an article in the Soviet Party organ Pravda blasting their participation in a Paris rally called to support political prisoners in the Soviet Union. In Madrid, Marchais was not about to raise Russian hackles again. Said he rather lamely: "We think that the three parties do not have the right to make a collective condemnation of some parties." That left...
...still more of an art than a science. Only one-third of all wells dug in the gulf are now producing; Exxon, Mobil, Champlin and others have spent more than $1.5 billion exploring off Pensacola, Fla., without discovering anything except salt water. Worse, federal investigators suspect that gulf producers in recent years have been purposely holding back production in hopes that federal price controls will be removed and the gas will eventually sell for $2 or more per 1,000 cu. ft., rather than the present top interstate price...
Connally is in danger right now of slipping into elder statesman status. Most Republican leaders, Gerald Ford among them, probably suspect he has yet to tell all about his Watergate ties, and so are afraid to pick him as a national candidate. (Hence Robert Dole.) During the election Republicans utilized Connally's ties to big money more than they did his campaigning ability. Ford even offered him the chairmanship of the party last year, but Connally declined this one-way ticket to the backstage and out of the national spotlight. Connally is too ambitious to be sent...