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...TIME last week learned that a memorandum drafted in August by GSA Special Counsel for Investigation Vincent Alto raises questions about Griffin's conduct at the GSA. The memo describes Griffin as trying in 1975 and 1976 to undermine the GSA's efforts to crack down on corruption and as harassing a GSA employee who would not go along...
According to the memo, Griffin tried to persuade Chief Investigator William Clinkscales to conduct "bootleg investigations" of which no official record was made. When Clinkscales refused, Alto's memo said, Griffin ordered that he be transferred to another job and demoted...
...retaliation, Griffin began a campaign of harassment against Petrillo; according to the memo Petrillo was subjected to "duress and coercion wrought by GSA experts from whom the KGB could learn valuable techniques." Over several months, Petrillo was stripped of his authority and warned that "his situation would get worse." In December 1976 he resigned again and filed a grievance with the Civil Service Commission...
When Solomon briefed Carter on the burgeoning investigation last week, aides reported that the President was "astounded." In a memo, Carter promised Solomon: "I will back you fully in whatever procedural, personnel, organizational and other actions are needed." Carter agreed to let Solomon fire Griffin, despite the objections of O'Neill, who called the dismissal "one of the worst things I have ever seen in personnel matters." Solomon said the firing was "not related to any allegations of impropriety or wrongdoing" on Griffin's part?only a move to tighten Solomon's control over the agency...
Four of the unions, covering 340,000 of the nation's 496,000 railway workers, signed a "memo of understanding" for a threeyear, 35% increase in wages and cost of living allowances. John Sytsma, president of the Locomotive Engineers, declared that his members had shown "admirable restraint" because they had originally asked for a 45% raise. Said Sytsma: "It's not quite fair to make labor the whipping boy for inflation...