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...Conlin, 38, attacked the G.O.P. for seeking to monopolize "the American dream" by such elitist devices as tax shelters. Conlin was the clear favorite over her Republican opponent, Lieutenant Governor Terry Branstad, until she released a financial statement disclosing that she and her husband James, a millionaire real estate broker, had paid no state income taxes last year and only $2,995 in federal taxes, largely because of paper losses suffered on real estate investments. Republicans have gleefully denounced her hypocrisy in attacking tax shelters even as she profited from them. Says Executive Editor James Gannon of the Des Moines...
...roughly around the turn of the century. Sex Comedy recounts a weekend hosted by Allen and his wife in a rural vacation house. Playing a Wall Street broker and weekend inventor, Allen greets his guests, and the complications begin as he recognizes a lost love. She is engaged, one member of one of the two couples who have come to visit. A "spirit lamp," with an embarrassing knack for revealing clandestine affairs, and copious quantities of wine contribute to the mixing and matching of the lovers, all or whom end contentedly mated by the film's conclusion...
...Allen at the NSC after serving for almost a year as Haig's deputy, Clark came into office with a noteworthy lack of knowledge about world affairs. He has yet to display a sharp analytic ability in the field. He apparently sees his role as being "an honest broker of ideas," presenting options to the President for consideration, rather than advocating a policy line of his own. "I would hope my viewpoints are no different from the President's," Clark has said. According to one top adviser, Clark also has one other important attribute: he is "totally dedicated...
...Secretary Francis Pym and then telephoned instructions to Stoessel to tell Kirkpatrick to abstain from the vote. Finding that he was too late, Haig asked that Kirkpatrick issue her recantation. Later, Haig blamed the confusion on communications problems. It was, said he, like placing a "buy with a distant broker and finding out that the price has changed." Trying to make the point that the U.S. had not engaged in a maneuver designed to placate both Britain and Argentina, White House Spokesman Larry Speakes said, "This does not indicate any change in our basic position." Still, the embarrassing flip-flop...
...American dominance of NATO. I think that West Germany, for example, has to be encouraged in its reorientation of the expansion of its interests towards the East, towards the Soviet Union, that it is really only Germany in reorienting itself towards playing something of a middle ground, the honest broker between the East and West, that will create an atmosphere in which the United States and the Soviet Union can reach some genuine progress on detente. Because as long as Russia fears a potential West German threat, there will never really be any progress between the United States...