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Jackson sees no conflict between his dual role as TV journalist and partisan political figure. "I'm a communicator," he says. "I'm a public servant, and some of my missions are journalistic." But news executives are more dubious. When Jackson tried to line up a TV backer for his recent Middle East trip, he was turned down by all three major networks and several other news organizations (including Warner Bros. TV), before the magazine show Inside Edition ponied up $125,000. The interview was something of a bust, partly because CBS's Dan Rather got to Saddam first...
...Republican backer of U.S. Senate hopeful James W. Rappaport, discussing Silber...
...table for the airport construction. Pena, citing a study forecasting the creation of 20,000 new jobs, announced a plan to move up the airport's opening date more than a year, to 1992. When Pena entered a tight race for re-election in 1987, M.D.C. was a principal backer...
...find was doubly lucky for Stager. Not only did his team make an important discovery but it did so during a visit by Leon Levy, a New York businessman who is the dig's financial backer. Levy's reaction was to extend funding for the project, which started five years ago, for a decade...
...bucks backer: tobacco heiress Doris Duke. Unruffled by sums requiring two commas, Duke posted $5 million bail for her close friend Imelda and, it is rumored, plunked down further millions for Spence...