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British Leyland's "slushing," as the Daily Mail told it, amounted to $19.4 million in the 1975-76 financial year and is estimated at $42.5 million for 1977-78. Furthermore, the paper claimed to have evidence that these payments were authorized by a Cabinet member, Industry Secretary Eric Varley...
...been sent by Lord Ryder, who as chairman of the National Enterprise Board oversees companies in which the government owns shares, to British Leyland Chief Executive Alex Park. The letter spoke of a "proposed method for dealing with 'special account arrangements' " that had been "nodded through" by Varley. The note went on to mention Ryder's concern about "the escalating trend of payment to 'contract agents,' " especially in the Middle East, and included a warning that the company should not be "taken for a 'camel ride' in such dangerous territory," evidently referring...
Secret Cash. At a tense session in the House of Commons, Industry Secretary Varley denied having "nodded anything through" that was connected with overseas payoffs. A British Leyland financial executive named Graham Barton later admitted that he had forged the Ryder letter. But he insisted that he had done so only to emphasize "what I regarded as a national scandal," and maintained that other documents cited in the Daily Mail story were genuine...
...Varley ordered Ryder to lead an investigation into the slush-fund charges, but pressure was mounting on the government to conduct a separate inquiry. In any case, the discovery of some noncontract payments abroad would hardly come as a surprise. Sir Fred Catherwood, chairman of the British Overseas Trade Board, candidly admitted last week that "in one-third of our markets, bribery is a way of life." Nonetheless, the Daily Mail's story could hardly have come at a more awkward time. Only two weeks ago, at the London summit, British officials joined representatives from the U.S. and other...
...other than a theater full of restless children. The novel's intricate plot is-paradoxically-simplified into near incomprehensibility. Its rich characterizations are reduced to banality. Anthony Newley, who also composed the film's stupefying score, plays Quilp, a scheming moneylender whose machinations reduce Nell (Sarah Jane Varley) and her grandfather to begging. Newley works himself into a great lather turning Quilp's villainy into a parody of evil so broad that the most innocent child could not possibly be scared by the funny man. Of course, once menace is removed, so is drama. The audience...