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...CARTER, 28, First Daughter, anti-CIA activist and artist, is engaged. Her intended is James Wentzel, a computer consultant she met while working in a bookstore and living with her former fiance, Michael Antonucci. (The Carter Center announced a "postponement" of that wedding a month before it was to take place.) "I think they complement each other," says Wentzel's father James, who was "a bit shocked" when his son started dating a President's daughter. "Our son's very outgoing and people-oriented, and Amy's quiet and smart." They plan to marry in September...
...take shape more than three decades ago, at about the time he arrived in national politics. Dole was first elected to the House in 1960, the year Jack Kennedy regained the White House for Democrats, who already controlled Congress. The conventional wisdom foresaw a new era of liberalism and activist government. For once the conventional wisdom was right. But most of the 40 or so G.O.P. House freshmen were so right-leaning they were called the Young Fogeys. That was fine with Dole. During his eight years in the House, he would be cited repeatedly by the Americans for Constitutional...
...image. In 1960 Goldwater published The Conscience of a Conservative, an outline of his beliefs and his game plan for victory that eventually sold 3.5 million copies. For Buchanan, who read it as a student at Georgetown University, it was "our New Testament." Immediately after the election, activist F. Clifton White organized a meeting of 32 businessmen, lawyers, oilmen and bankers as the nucleus of a drive to nominate a conservative, preferably Goldwater...
...Leyden was doing more than just collecting paraphernalia; he was developing into a sophisticated neo-Nazi activist. Through a fellow skinhead he came to the attention of Tom Metzger, founder of the White Aryan Resistance, based in California. "Tom wanted more military recruiters," Leyden recalls. "They started sending me literature." And he worked hard for his cause, recruiting at least four fellow travelers, who then went off to other bases. The Marines finally reacted when he had Nazi storm-trooper lightning bolts tattooed on his neck. In a 1990 evaluation his superior officer wrote, "Loyalty is questionable, as he willingly...
DIED. ELLA COLLINS, 82, civil rights activist and half-sister of Malcolm X who took over the Organization of Afro-American Unity in the wake of Malcolm's assassination; in Boston...