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...alone at the starting gate than the breakfast clubs and coffee shops, where Filipino politicians, reporters and businessmen regularly trade information and gossip, were swept with rumors that the President's backers were dangling big money in front of potential candidates so that somebody would run against him. Assemblyman Reuben Canoy told TIME that a supporter of Marcos' had offered the equivalent of $1.3 million to Canoy if he would challenge the President. Canoy turned the opportunity down. A longtime Marcos ally eventually surfaced as a candidate: Alejo Santos, 69, the fourth choice of the Nacionalista Party, which...
Weinberger's calm confidence stems in part from his closeness to Reagan. Their mutual admiration dates from 1968, when Weinberger, a former state assemblyman and talk-show host, joined Reagan's California cabinet as finance director. In the current Cabinet, only Attorney General William French Smith has so firm a relationship with Reagan and his inner circle...
...newly formed Black Leadership Coalition, which was brought together to combat community fragmentation and includes Georgia State Assemblyman Tyrone Brooks and State Senator Julian Bond, last week denounced the "circus atmosphere" created by the worldwide publicity: They added: "When the tragedy of death is coupled with opportunism, vigilante action and fraudulent fund raising, concerned citizens must speak...
...Some financial exploitation is being done by people far removed from the murders. In Chicago, men posing as ministers collected $50 each from 75 people for a bus trip to Atlanta. When the donors met for the trip in a shopping center, the buses -and ministers-never showed up. Assemblyman Brooks has received similar complaints of illegal fundraising from California, New Orleans and Detroit...
...could not have had anything to do with the Atlanta killings. Atlantans were even more irked at a Washington Post story last week that described their city as "about to crack" under the civic and racial pressures caused by the killings. "Where do they get that stuff?" asked Assemblyman Brooks...