Word: california
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...told agents that after the fund raiser. Industrialist Leopold Wyler received guests at his home, where cocaine was used by what she described as "the White House people." Wyler, founder of TRE Corp., a Beverly Hills aerospace firm, was Carter's finance chairman in the 1976 California primary campaign, but has since joined a dump-Carter movement. Wyler said he had suspected that coke was used at his party, but insists that he "was very displeased with what seemed to be going on." He said he did not see Jordan or any of the other Carter associates using...
Jordan flatly denied using cocaine at the California parties, as he had denied using the drug at Studio 54. Presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell protested the "smears" Complained Powell: "Any time someone makes a charge against Hamilton, the FBI's got to investigate it; then it gets headlines and Hamilton's career is ruined...
...strategy of moving toward the center is based on an assessment by his advisers that the former California Governor has the Republican nomination just about sewed up, and that he should begin courting middle-of-the-road voters for next fall's election. Certainly he is far ahead in the polls. The Harris survey shows him leading Jimmy Carter, 51-44 (while Reagan's principal Republican opponent, John Connally, trails the President, 44-52). Therefore his staff is creating what it calls an "expanded" or & "more reflective" version of the old Reagan. Says his national political director Charles...
...Connally has not decided whether to fight Reagan in the California primary on June 3, but the Texan's supporters in California have been working hard to strengthen his chances. They are trying to change the present law under which the victor in the California primary -undoubtedly Reagan -would automatically win all of California's 168 delegates to next year's G.O.P. convention. The anti-Reagan forces would like to revise the law so that if no candidate got 50% of the primary vote, the huge California delegation would be proportionately divided among the winner...
...decade ago, Arthur Jensen discovered that fact the hard way. Jensen, then a little-known professor of educational psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, created a furor and became a target of abuse by publishing an article in the Harvard Educational Review. Its claim: based on IQ tests, whites may be naturally smarter than blacks. Now, battered but unbowed, Jensen, 56, is returning to the fray. In a book to be published in December, he concludes that the IQ tests showing blacks scoring lower than whites are fair, accurate and not-as critics suppose-skewed by culture...