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...three children of a utility-company executive, the Iowa-born, Nebraska-bred Carson came from a rigid, authoritarian family. "Once when he was drunk," recounted Truman Capote, a frequent Tonight show guest, "he told me that his mother would throw herself on the floor and scream, 'I bore you from these loins, and you do this to me! All that pain, and this is what I get in return...
...effective smear has at its core an outrageous charge that would be devastating if true. The author must be both coy and cowardly: he must make the charge stick while retaining deniability. Although Goodin, Atwater's friend of a decade, took the fall, the tactic bore the unmistakable Atwater stamp. As Bush's 1988 campaign manager, Atwater specialized in character assassination: last summer Michael Dukakis was dogged by rumors that he had been treated for depression. In a similar incident in 1980, Atwater was managing the campaign of South Carolina Congressman Floyd Spence when a reporter asked Spence's Democratic...
Last month Fox Television's America's Most Wanted program reported on the case, featuring a sculptor's bust portraying List, now 63, as he would appear today. A tip to the program's hot line led FBI agents to Robert Clark in Brandermill, Va., an accountant who bore a striking resemblance to the sculptor's guesswork. Fingerprints indicated that authorities had found their man. New Jersey prosecutors expect to charge List/Clark with five overdue counts of first-degree murder...
...NTSB issued a report finding that the FAA bore partial responsibility for last year's accident in which the top of an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 tore apart in midair, killing a flight attendant. The FAA allegedly neglected to monitor carefully Aloha's maintenance procedures and failed to enforce closer inspections in the airline industry even after stress cracks had been found in older planes...
Beijing Mayor Chen Xitong listened, stern-faced, as a student questioner bore down on him and other local officials about the nepotism and corruption that now pervade the Chinese bureaucracy. As television viewers at home watched intently, Chen, an unpopular hard-liner, seized the microphone and answered defensively. "I'm a grade-twelve cadre with a monthly income slightly over 300 yuan (($80))," he protested. "None of my family members are high-ranking officials. My son is a junior cadre in the Beijing civil affairs bureau, and my daughter-in-law is an ordinary clerk...