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...among them two who had overseen the Hyatt Regency project, discovered that the inspectors were routinely falsifying work logs, more often than not spending their working hours bar hopping and merely driving by construction sites. One of the inspectors the reporters found derelict was the city's chief watchdog at a new hotel complex under construction downtown. One January day, the inspector reported to superiors that he had spent seven hours tramping around a dozen building sites, but the Star's investigators found that instead he had made just two quick official stops. The rest...
DIED. Dwight Macdonald, 76, contentious cultural watchdog who wryly tilted against both Philistinism and pretension; in New York City. Educated at Exeter and Yale, Macdonald wrote for FORTUNE from 1929 to 1936. His intellectual life was an odyssey: he was a Trotskyite who opposed World War II and singlehanded ran the pacifist-leftist journal Politics (1944-49). Next he declared himself a "conservative anarchist" and in his last major political stand supported the antiwar movement of the '60s. A fastidious critic, he graced Esquire and The New Yorker with sometimes highhanded pronouncements about movies, books and overblown fads. Observing...
...thought he had finally won a congressional victory last week. Thwarted in every attempt on the Hill to advance his "social issues" agenda-banning abortion, reinstating prayer in public schools, ending the busing of students to desegregate schools-into real legislation, he has appointed himself as a special Senate watchdog on presidential nominations, one who is ever on the alert for signs of ideological deviation. Early in the Reagan Administration, Helms was able to delay confirmation of a few State Department officials whom he considered squishy-soft on Communism. But once the White House pushed a bit, Reagan...
...conclusion of a UNESCO conference last week, delegates gave consensus approval to a watered-down version of the developing nations' new order. The minority of Western delegates did secure several passages that caution against government interference, urging instead that the press act as a "watchdog" in keeping a close eye on authorities worldwide...
Brezhnev rites suggests, Andropov could conceivably fill as many as four seats with his own supporters. He may enlist some "younger" recruits among the nine nonvoting members of the Politburo, including Heavy Industry Specialist Vladimir Dolgikh, 57, and Cultural Watchdog Pyotr Demichev...