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...there's a whole slew of weak Democrats drowning in strong Republican districts: New York's Stanley Lundine is said by many to be gone, and California Dem Jerry Patterson is having a hard time keeping his head above water. To this list add James McClure Clark, Don Albosta, Bob Carr, Tim Penny and Joe Minish. All of these Democrats are ideologically off base in their respective districts...
...once again under fire for his alleged role in another undercover operation: a House subcommittee accused Casey, who headed Ronald Reagan's election campaign, of receiving purloined briefing papers from the Carter White House. After a ten-month investigation, the House Human Resources subcommittee headed by Democrat Donald Albosta of Michigan found that "the better evidence indicates that Carter debate briefing materials entered the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign through its director, William J. Casey...
When the story of the leaked papers broke last year, Casey told the House panel and the FBI that he did not recall seeing any Carter briefing materials. White House Chief of Staff James Baker, however, said that he remembered receiving a briefing book from Casey. The Albosta committee seemed to side with Baker, concluding that his "testimony is corroborated by a credible witness." That witness, Margaret Tutwiler, is a Baker aide who recalled being told by him that he had received the material from Casey. The committee also pointed out a memo written by Robert Garrick, a campaign aide...
...hearings, raised more questions than it resolved. "The subcommittee believes that it has received responses from some of these persons that were not candid," its 2,313-page report said. "This prevented it from fully resolving the briefing-book issue." In a strange twist on an old metaphor, Chairman Albosta said: "We have a warm barrel, but the smoke is still to be found.'' Nonetheless, the report concluded that the Reagan campaign conducted "organized efforts" to obtain documents from the Carter camp...
...mini-scandals in his Administration, the President last week attended a groundbreaking ceremony for a new building at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., where he praised Casey and his agency as "an inspiration to your fellow Americans and to people everywhere." In a brief statement, Casey dismissed the Albosta report as "a partisan document in a political year...