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...hardtop, in the parking lot outside the fashionable Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Township, 15 miles northwest of Detroit. But there was no sign of Jimmy Hoffa, 62, the stubby, cocky, belligerent figure who was as tough as any truck driver on the road and who loved to wield the power of the Teamsters, the strongest and most feared labor union...
...midweek that "a new government has been formed," its composition had not been revealed by week's end. Observers in Lisbon therefore concluded that Gonçalves was having great difficulty in persuading any civilians, except Communists and radical leftists, to serve in a Cabinet that would wield little real power, would be dominated by the military. Certain to be absent from the Cabinet are the moderates-the Socialists and centrist Popular Democrats, who together polled nearly two-thirds of the vote in last April's Constituent Assembly election. In opposition to the M.F.A.'s recent authoritarian...
...spent an additional $19 million that had not been authorized. Included was a voucher for $86,000 supposedly paid to the Italian Communist Party, which made sweeping gains in regional elections last month partly by boasting that its hands were "clean" of foreign oil money. The Italian Communists, who wield considerable clout in their country's municipal and union affairs, have denied they ever received the payments...
...cannot "fine tune" the economy, but must continue to seek limited yet important aims: adjusting tax, spending and money-supply policies to stimulate or restrain the economy. The recent record is scarcely reassuring. But there is ground for hope that economic managers can learn enough from past mistakes to wield their fiscal and monetary weapons more effectively...
...criticized the Atomic Energy Commission's handling of nuclear wastes, the annoyed AEC cut off further funding until the academy leadership appointed a more congenial group. Lacking significant outside support, the academy depends on such money for its studies. But Government agencies-or industry-have rarely had to wield a financial club since the committees themselves are frequently staffed by uncritical scientists. Examples: key parts of a report on lead poisoning were drafted by a chemical company scientist; a subcommittee on dog-and cat-food standards was chaired by a pet food company executive; an aerospace company vice president...