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...White House and sex on the presidential yacht. Her version of John Kennedy gives new meaning to the Bay of Pigs affair, as the randy Commander in Chief leaves his lover mad and languishing in a Swiss sanatorium. Elsewhere in this view of Washington below the Beltway, sex and statecraft are cranked up to date. "The real story at the heart of politics and male power was their wives and lady friends," thinks Deena Simon, the gossip columnist with a nose for news but practically no nose. "Just ask Gary Hart...
...Washington Establishment, or that collection of people "inside the Beltway," is the big, raw nerve end of the U.S. And it has been so for almost 200 years. Curse it, attack it, defy it indefinitely, and a President almost always ends up diminished...
...California the state government estimates that each day 300,000 work hours are lost to traffic jams at a cost of $2 million. On the Capital Beltway near Washington, gridlock costs employers as much as $120 million a year in lost time. But the toll on the individual commuter, usually lone but hardly a ranger, is heavier still. Without hope of release, he sits in his little cell inhaling exhaust fumes and staring blankly at the zinc...
Secord's outfit, Stanford Technologies Trading Group International, was only one of many such firms that have grown up around the Washington Beltway in the past decade, most of them staffed with veterans of the huge CIA covert operations of the Viet Nam era. Reacting both to the end of the war and to congressional investigations of covert activities, Jimmy Carter's CIA director Stansfield Turner purged nearly 800 people from the agency. Some of them turned up in the Beltway firms. "One result of the purge was that many of the former agents set up private companies that began...
...spring henbit touched the pastures of Missouri with a delicate lavender, and the "Kewpie" cheerleaders were deep into Ivory soap when Ronald Reagan arrived in Columbia last week in search of himself. He's playing America again after months as a captive inside the Washington Beltway, where always is heard a discouraging word and the skies are cloudy most days...