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...Clinch River Breeder Reactor. This troubled nuclear project in Tennessee (450% cost overrun) got $230 million. One reason: Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker is from Tennessee...
...shoulder, an inferiority complex that he defends by putting on a superiority complex. But fortunately, a good horse doesn't know who his trainer is." Others may scorn Campo's city background and his own ineptness in the saddle. ("He's no horseman," says a Kentucky breeder. "I don't think he could ride in a boxcar with the doors closed.") But Campo is equally -and justifiably-haughty about his accomplishments. Says he: "I'll put myself and my record up against anybody in this country, in the world, head-to-head...
...weekends, Wiggins immersed himself in an even more extravagant pursuit as a multimillionaire cattle breeder. He rode high in the saddle as owner of a six-state ranching empire that included the U.S.'s largest herd of Limousin beef cattle, a prizewinning French breed...
...budget cuts also came under initial assault at a hearing of the Joint Economic Committee Senator Edward Kennedy waved a copy of a 1977 press release in which Stockman, then a Congressman, assailed the $3 billion Clinch River Breeder Reactor project in Tennessee as "totally incompatible with our free market approach to energy policy." Kennedy wondered why Stockman was not urging that this project be killed. Democrats suspect it was saved to keep Tennessee's Senator Baker happy, but Reagan is on record as favoring development of breeder reactors as a means of making nuclear plants more efficient...
Some 6,350 miles away in Tehran, the Americans were enduring a final episode of psychological abuse. Most, if not all, had been assembled by Iranian revolutionary guards at an undisclosed site in northern Tehran, probably the opulent mansion once owned by Hojabr Yazdani, a wealthy cattle breeder and industrialist who is now a fugitive from Khomeini's regime. They had been examined by the Algerian doctors, but the hostages had not been told that they were to be released. Ahmad Azizi, the Iranian government's second-ranking spokesman on the hostages, claimed later: "It would have been too painful...