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The real irony, however, is that there is nothing wrong with that. An ability to transcend family is exactly what you want in a President. You want someone who cares more about what's happening in Kuwait than about what's happening in his kid's kindergarten. You don't...
At the processing center we got a briefing from State Department officials on how we should act in Seoul and what we have to worry about when we're there. People have been worrying about what could happen in Seoul, but I'm not. There won't be any terrorism...
While the study was billed as an attempt togenerate momentum for an oil import tariff, itsucceeded most in calling attention to itself.Many reporters who attended the briefing say thatthey were suspicious of the hard-sell packaging ofthe report and of its funding sources. And thoughCapitol Hill never made much movement...
The authors unveiled their findings at theCapitol Hill press conference. A luncheon, paidfor by Apache, followed the briefing. Joe Davis, areporter for Congressional Quarterly who attendedthe briefing, says his "bullshit detector" wentoff after receiving the notices from the oilcompanies.
Editors at the newspaper, alerted to the Capitol Hill briefing, said they smoked the story out of sources in both branches of Government. A more probable motive for the leak: to convince Noriega's Panamanian foes that they have not been abandoned by the U.S.