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By late afternoon the sky sours--all grey tension and flat light. Pulling into Tower Junction, we look for 6-10, a Park Ranger who went to school with Fred. The Park Service people live in a ratty cove of mobile homes parked on a patch of mud and gravel...
Whatever comes of the Northrop revelations, the story is not likely to stop there. Ever since the Watergate prosecutors began investigating illegal contributions by more than a dozen U.S. companies (including Northrop) to Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign and found clues that some of the same companies...
Bolivia's moves showed just how high official anger is running against U.S. multinational firms, chiefly oil companies, for their widening payoffs. In South Korea, U.S. and Japanese firms reportedly budget 5% or 10% of operating funds to pay off avaricious local politicians and political parties.
Widening Hunt. Last week Federal Energy Administration investigators added up the score on overcharges discovered so far and came up with some impressive totals. The Government has already ordered rebates or price rollbacks of $160.6 million by major segments of the U.S. oil industry. Another $243 million could be refunded...
FEA officials contend that they have found little evidence of criminal intent on the part of suppliers in cases settled so far. Most of the overcharges, they say, resulted from confusion and varying interpretations of the Government's complex pricing regulations. But FEA and other federal agencies are also...