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Gary Hart's reappearance has eclipsed the rest of the Democratic field just as it came Babbitt's turn to capture 15 minutes of fame. But despite being stuck at near asterisk levels in the polls, Babbitt could in the end be helped by Hart's claim to have re-entered the race because the other candidates were avoiding substantive issues. Babbitt, with his rumble-voice lectures about the need to raise taxes and restrain entitlements, has long staked his claim as the brave knight of substance. Relentlessly propounding specific proposals and coherent themes, Babbitt offers as many...
...financially troubled PTL ministry that Jim and Tammy Bakker abandoned amid scandal last spring heard from its biggest creditor last week. As thousands of claims were filed against the ministry to meet a deadline imposed by a federal bankruptcy court, the Internal Revenue Service came in with its long-awaited bill. PTL accountants had estimated the organization's tax debt at $5 million. That is peanuts compared with the Government's primary claim: $61.8 million, nearly a third of the ministry's $170 million in assets -- a sum that more than doubles the PTL's debt load...
Much of the public indignation was stirred by allegations that Boesky has emerged from the affair with a large part of his huge fortune intact, even after paying $100 million as a result of the charges against him. Though his attorneys claim that he is close to bankruptcy, a lawyer who knows him well says, "I would swap assets with Boesky any time." George Reycraft, who represents Boesky's former partners in a civil damage suit, claims that the speculator took $400 million out of his firm. "We just do not have a fix on his assets," says Lawyer Robert...
American analysts were similarly baffled by another vague Gorbachev claim, made during his final press conference, that the Soviets possessed the means to identify the location and megatonnage of land- and sea-based nuclear weapons -- even those deployed on submarines. If the Soviets could indeed pinpoint U.S. subs, they could neutralize a key leg of the U.S. nuclear triad. State Department and Pentagon experts were highly skeptical that the Soviets possessed such technology...
Gorbachev and Reagan have pledged to work for a 50 percent cut in their long-range nuclear arsenals but the Soviets have made that agreement contingent on limits on testing and deployment of Star Wars, which the Soviets claim is banned under the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Treaty...