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...probe found that James Howarth, who had supervised the House pages until last December, when he was given other duties, had had sex in 1980 with one of his 17-year-old female wards. The report also accused Howarth of buying cocaine in the House's Democratic cloakroom, possibly from another House staffer. Howarth contests the charges. The probe into drug use is continuing...
...lobbying blitz. More than 35 business and trade groups joined the effort. The President spoke with some balky lawmakers three or four times. Expecting his fourth phone call, Republican Gerald Solomon of New York left a message that he was sick and hid out in the House cloakroom. He voted...
...York Herald Tribune used to wonder how much of his Runyonesque column was fiction. The question was settled with the suggestion that Jimmy did not write fiction because he had enough trouble making up the truth. That, in part, was how the New Journalism was born. From barroom, cloakroom and police station, Breslin cut slices of life in which big guys squeezed little guys; people who read too many books didn't know what they were talking about; and politicians were vain, greedy and corrupt-except Bobby Kennedy, who got shot as Breslin watched. Nobody wrote a better eyewitness...
...night of Nov. 21, and in one hour the Government would go out of business if the necessary appropriation bill was not passed. In the Senate cloakroom, Majority Leader Howard Baker was trying to put together enough votes for a continuing resolution that would keep programs funded through the fiscal year. Michigan Democrat Carl Levin, who objected to proposed increases for defense spending, threatened to filibuster. Ted Stevens of Alaska, the Republican whip, began shouting at Levin. When Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn tried to intercede, Stevens turned his wrath on him. The mild-mannered Nunn stalked away...
...Howard Henry Baker Jr., 56, of tiny Huntsville, Tenn. (pop. 519), has become one of the most effective shepherds in the history of the cantankerous club that he leads. With an amiable aw-shucks manner, he wanders the corridors keeping his troops in line and his opponents placated. "The cloakroom becomes my office," he says. "The floor is my domain...