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...have had several tiffs over money from outside the state--Grassley has pleaded guilty to taking NCPAC funds, but he asks, with some justification, why that's any worse than accepting cash from the coffers of Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), a group that has swollen Culver's war chest. More than his embattled liberal colleagues, Culver has refused to yield on his progressive record, insisting he's satisfied with his stand on the issues. Perhaps as a result, Iowa's election may be less of a referendum on the question of outside interference and more of an ideological decision...
...parking lot, members of the Alamogordo Chamber of Commerce busily hand out leaflets warning that radiation on the site is still above average levels. A booklet adds that it is only one-fifth as great as the radiation received from a chest X ray. No eating, drinking or smoking is permitted within the ten-acre, fenced-in area around ground zero, lest radioactive materials be ingested. "What's a little radiation?" scoffs 14-year-old Lee Hutchinson, visiting Trinity for the second time. "It's bad at Three Mile Island because that's in the middle...
...result, Manley said, "(Mayor) Kevin White will have to dip into his campaign chest to finance the city of Boston...
Gorton, who looks a little like Henry Fonda, has argued more cases before the U.S. Supreme Court than any other state attorney general (14) and initiated antitrust suits against some of the state's major industries and banks. He has a campaign war chest of $400,000 with the help of timber and small-business interests, but he is still being outspent more than 2 to 1 by Magnuson...
...shoots mooses, she cooks mooses, she "crumbles the earth in my hands and smears it on my face and arms. I take off my shirt and pour it over my chest. I toss a shovelful above my head so that it showers into my hair. Cool and dry like powder, it is gritty like sand; it smells like dirt. I can't convince myself that this dirt belongs to me. We have only just...