GM WANTS ANTITRUST SUIT DROPPED

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000201740001-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2014
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 21, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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JUL 2 1 1966
The Washington. Merry-Go-Ronne!
cM Wants Antitrust,.Suit
By Drew Pearson ?
It isn't being advertised, but
Lloyd Cutler, the astute auto
industry lawyer, dropped in at
the Antitrust Division the
: -
74other day to
I argue Assistant
t
lAttorney Gen-
eral Donald
.Turner into
4dropping
the civil case
against Gener-
al Motors
for monopoliz-
, the loco-
motive market.
'Pearson Cutler is the
man who has cajoled, pres-
sured and persuaded some
'members of the House Com-
merce Committee over to the
auto industry's side on safety,
also represented the big drug
companies when the issue of
safe drugs was before Con-
gress.
He has become one of the
most versatile big-business at-
torneys in Washington. And
the fact that he used to belong
to the same law firm as anti-
trust chief Donald , Turner
hasn't hurt him a bit.
Turner is the man who re-
cently took a trip to St. Louis
in the Anheuser Busch private
plane to see the All Star base-
ball game, shortly after drop-
ping an antitrust suit against
the big brewing company.
When John Doerfer, Pres-
ident Eisenhower's chairman
of the Federal Comunications
Gornmission was a guest on the'
Storer yacht while .entrusted
with regulating Storer broad-
casting stations, Eisenhower
demanded his resignation.
It will be interesting to. see
what hapens in regard to Tur-
ner on two counts: First,
whether LI3J requests his res-
ignation; second, whether Cut-
ler persuades Turner to drop
the civil case against General
Motors.
GM has *b e en accused,
among other things, of telling
railroads it would not ship its
autos or other equipm: lit over
their lines unless thrn, pur-
chased GM locomotive
GM was first indieim in a1
criminal case in the Kennedy
administration, April 12, 1961.
The criminal case was dis-
missed in Chicago Dec. 28,
1964. Now GM wants the civil
case settled, ton.,,
Nasser Has Problems
ini-rfcir some Near East
fireworks this week in Egypt.
President Nasser will celebrate
the anniversary of his advent
to power on Saturday and, in
addition to a big military
parade, is expected to launch
some of the missiles concocted
by the ex-Nazi scientists now
working in Cairo.
Behind this show of strength
is the fact that Nasser is hav-
ing a tough time politically and
economically and nee?.s some
spectacular missile launchings
to divert attention from his
problems.
,One,of his chief .problems
k.
rep
is the enmity of other Arab
leaders, highlighted during the
recent visit of King Faisal to
Washington when the King of
Saudi Arabia laid it on the line
to the State Department that
he did not relish the big food
grants the United States is ex-
tending to Nasser.
Although King Faisal was
snubbed in New York City be-
cause of his anti-Israel re-
marks, there is one thing he
has in common with Israel?
opposition to Nasser. This was
one of the reasons why the
U.S. food agreement with
Egypt was not extended when
it expired June, 30.
Meanwhile, most of the
Egyptian infantry is still fight-
ing in the Yemen against
forces friendly to King Faisal.
This is why Nasser will pump
up a display of tanks, armored
combat vehicles and missile
launchings surpassing the one
he staged last year.
Actually three types of mis-
siles have appeared in the
past:
1. El-Raed, a two-stage mis-
sile, range 440 miles, with a
warhead of one ton. ,
2. El Kaher, range '75 miles,
a warhead of 1,500 pounds.
3. El Zafir, with a warhead
of 1,000 pounds and a range
of 235 miles.
It's also reported the Egyp-
tians will parade Russian-made
missiles of the SAM-2 variety,
together' with sea-to-sea Rus-
sian-made Missiles of the
on 14 gunboats off the Egyptoi
ian coast.
Real fact is that all these
weapons have been shown be-
fore, and the chief significance
of the display will be an over-
exaggerated show of military'
might to calm Egyptian unrest
It's reported that the 70,000
troops fighting in the Yemen;
are so fed up with Nasser that
it would be dangerous to bring:
them home. Nasser also faces.
problems from his deteriorat-
ing economy, now almost on,
the verge of bankruptcy. So'
the display of Cairo fireworks:
this week will attempt to cover,
up a lot of hidden weakness.:
Texan's Best
The wounded veterans whom
Secretary McNamara took on
the cruise down the Potomac]
didn't know it, but the deli-
cious Texas barbecue they en-
joyed was largely through the
courtesy'of Tom Finan, Mary-
land candidate for Governor,'
and of Big Brothers. Mrs. Es-
ther Coppersmith, dynamic
sparkplug of the Finan cam-
paign, had arranged for the
LBJ Ranch barbecuer, Walter
Jetton, to come to Washington
from Fort Worth to do the Big
Brothers ? barbecue on Satur-
day evening and the Finan-for-
Governor barbecue on Mon-
day. Having taken the long
trip from Texas, Jetton obliged
the Secretary of Defense by
donating and cooking the best
food Texas can offer for the
veterans just returned from'
Vietnam.
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/01/06 : CIA-RDP73-00475R000201740001-3