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This case is not the only embarrassment for American Telephone & Telegraph Co., parent of the Bell companies L.E. Rast, president of Atlanta-headquartered Southern Bell, John J. Ryan, former vice president and general manager for Bell operations in North Carolina, and three other company executives have been indicted in North Carolina on charges of conspiring to force other company officials into falsifying expense accounts so that the money could go into illegal political contributions. The company has admitted that some 80 Southern Bell executives between 1971 and 1973 made contributions to politicians totaling $142,000. Ryan last week pleaded not guilty the others have yet to be arraigned.
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