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...company's sub-building division in Groton, Conn. His word is hardly unimpeachable. In 1983 he fled to his native Greece to avoid being tried on charges of perjuring himself before a grand jury and taking $1.3 million in kickbacks from a subcontractor (see box). Veliotis has produced tapes and company documents that he claims reveal a pattern of waste, corruption and cover-up at General Dynamics. In a tape of one talk he had with Lewis, for example, the chairman suggests that Veliotis reassure James Ashton, a discontented Electric Boat executive, that he is still in the running...
Facing a group of microphones and tape recorders, Steiner explained at the 15-minute conference that Harvard holds approximately $580 million of stock in about 100 companies which do a "small part"--usually less than 1 percent, he said--of their business in South Africa...
...approached him on a Manhattan subway last Dec. 22. He appeared on local television news shows, wrote a bylined article for the New York Post, and ate take-out Chinese food with Barbara Walters in his 14th Street apartment for ABC's 20/20. ABC broadcast segments of a tape made by New Hampshire police on which Goetz is heard saying, "I knew in my heart I was a murderer...
Iacocca reads like Iacocca talks, more or less. The book was actually stitched together by Writer William Novak (for a flat fee of $45,000) after some 20 tape-recorded sessions with his subject. Most of the syntactical switchbacks and impulsive rhetorical questions have been edited out. Most notably, his abundant profanity was reduced to a tangy minimum, although at least one "f---" stayed in. But the voice is unmistakable. In print, as in person, Iacocca works hard to please: he has produced several different books in one, alternately sentimental and nasty, inspirational and hard-boiled, by turns a conventional...
...word-recognition systems using this technique are already in the hands of the National Security Agency, the top-secret Government bureau that monitors global communications networks. Eavesdropping on overseas telephone calls, NSA's supercomputers can pick out key words from among millions of simultaneous phone conversations, then isolate and tape-record any suspicious call for further investigation by human analysts...