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...regular job back home in Oklahoma and maybe try the music business again later. "I'm not makin' this trip every year," she told him. "Either we're diggin' in, or we're goin' home for good." They dug in, and six months later Brooks signed with Capitol Records. "I am so thankful to God and Sandy," Brooks says. "It turned out real well...
...explicit policy on purchases of Russian space expertise, services and hardware is clearly overdue, and Congress is putting pressure on the Administration to devise one. At week's end Atwood went to Capitol Hill to discuss the matter, and gave signs of relenting on some deals. The Defense Department's purchase of the Topaz, in fact, may be approved as early as this week. Says a senior congressional source: "Several of the top people are now aware they have...
...illegal immigrants, who he claims are draining taxpayer dollars. He wants to slash the size of the Federal Government, freeze government regulations for two years and roll back half of Congress's recent pay hike. He also wants to clamp term limits on "those check-kiting, boodling Congressmen on Capitol Hill." In one of his nastier pitches, he attacks the National Endowment for the Arts as "that upholstered playpen of the arts and crafts auxiliary of the Eastern liberal Establishment...
Jack Russ must have been surprised by his own success. The son of a gas- station operator from Picayune, Miss., he moved to Washington in 1967 and worked as a part-time doorman on Capitol Hill. He rose through the ranks to chief page and in 1983 became sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives. In that capacity Russ helped command a force of 1,265 black- suited police officers and oversaw the security of the 435 members of the House...
Russ's problems, as it turned out, were only beginning. As some House members called for his dismissal, Russ reported last week that he had been the victim of a bizarre holdup and shooting. He claimed to have been walking his sheep dog near the Capitol one night when he was accosted by two men. Russ claimed that one of the men put a gun into his mouth while the other took his wallet and Rolex watch. The gunman pulled the trigger but the bullet only ripped through his left cheek. As he recuperated at home last week, Russ called...