Word: bookings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, Newt's only claim to fame as a House member is that he brought ethics charges against House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Texas). He alleged that Wright's staff illegally contributed to a book from which the speaker improperly profited...
These are strange charges for Gingrich to bring, given his own spotty literary past. In the 1970s, Gingrich received $13,000 to write a book which was never published. When questioned about where the money went, Gingrich responded he spent it to "do research in Europe...
...partnership amassed more than $100,000 to market another of Gingrich's books, Windows of Opportunity. Contributing members of this partnership "coincidentally" included several who benefitted from lucrative government contracts in Gingrich's district. Although Newt says he will respond to charges of impropriety in this case, he has already admitted that it is unusual that such large sums of money were raised to publicize a minor political book...
...Harvard Advocate and other campus publications held a banned books reading last night at Lamont Library in response to the recent uproar over Salman Rushdie's book, The Satanic Verses...
Yoshino said that Advocate member Adam M. Lifshey '91 suggested the idea of the banned books reading soon after the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini banned Rushdie's book in February and set a price on the author's head...