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Barnes' links with Perot are equally murky. On July 1, Perot told a Senate committee in a secret deposition that the two men had never met, but said Barnes called him once or twice a year. Then, on Aug. 5, Perot's security guards caught Barnes in the billionaire's Dallas headquarters after hours. According to Perot, Barnes said the Republicans had hired him to wiretap the Texan's computers and ruin Perot financially so he could not run again. "Maybe it doesn't make sense," Perot said when asked why he had not made these charges public until...
Revell thought he had to move quickly. On Aug. 6, four days before the cowboy-agent appeared, Oberwetter was visited by Barnes, who identified himself as "Howard Parsons" and insisted that the two of them discuss the matter on a bench outdoors. Oberwetter says he refused to accept the illegal materials. What Oberwetter did not know was that the encounter was being videotaped, allegedly by a BBC correspondent named David Taylor. The video was turned over to the FBI, but without any audio, it proved nothing. Nevertheless, agents heard rumors that Taylor was preparing to air or distribute the video...
...July 16: he wanted to save his daughter Carolyn from a smear. Seems he got wind from three sources -- two unnamed, one a frequent promoter of conspiracy theories -- of a Republican plot to portray his daughter as a lesbian by circulating a doctored photograph, then to "disrupt" her Aug. 23 wedding by means unspecified. By Oct. 1, with Carolyn married, Perot presumably figured it was safe to get back into the race...
...trouble started when he went out to buy cigarettes at a corner grocery in his hometown of Deerfield Beach, Florida, on Aug. 13, 1990. The store sold them two for a quarter, and Knighton, then 16, had only 20 cents in his pocket. So on the way he stopped to ask a neighbor, Schanell Sorrells, 13, for a nickel. Schanell said she didn't have one. He shouted, "Give it over." She refused...
...though, insurers must persuade state regulators of their need to do so, and that won't be easy in Florida and Louisiana. Two days after Andrew struck, the National Insurance Consumer Organization disclosed an embarrassing internal memo from Jeffrey Greenberg, executive vice president of American International Group. In the Aug. 26 memo, Greenberg described the storm as "an opportunity to get price increases now." He urged AIG executives to prepare clients for a rate boost. "Please get it moving today," he wrote. The memo touched off a maelstrom of outrage. Insurance commissioners in Louisiana and Florida immediately slapped...