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Hardy and former California Congressman Tony Coelho are reportedly teaming up in an effort to buy the company from Matsushita. But there will be other bidders. A coalition of preservationists has formed the Yosemite Restoration Trust, a nonprofit organization that aims to buy the concessioner and put into effect a 1980 federal plan for reducing commercialism at the park...
...highest-ranking thrift regulator in Texas, Linton Bowman, who has not been charged with any wrongdoing. Dixon sought to win political allies with hard cash. He allegedly had Vernon make illegal contributions to the campaigns of such politicians as California Senator Alan Cranston, former House Majority Whip Tony Coelho and former House Speaker Jim Wright, all of whom have been tarnished by other connections to the S&L scandal. None of the campaigns were aware of the illegality of Dixon's contributions...
...will be one of an unprecedented seven Senators -- the so-called Keating Five plus two others -- facing investigation by the Senate ethics committee. If the past session of Congress was a nightmare for the House of Representatives, with the resignations of Speaker Jim Wright and Majority Whip Tony Coelho and the launching of twelve other ethics investigations, this session promises to be even worse for the Senate...
...starting to get restless. There have been no clear alternatives and damn little criticism. Foley and Mitchell should be out front." Yet the Democrats have been mired in troubles of their own: the convoluted agony of the pay raise, the forced resignations of Speaker Jim Wright and whip Tony Coelho, and now the sex scandal involving Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank. Nor is the climate right for combat, with the economy perking along and the President enjoying an extended honeymoon. Grouses former party chairman Bob Strauss: "This is not the time to take on George Bush head...
...Democrats are responding with threats and name-calling. Wright's son, Jim Wright III, calls Gingrich "another Joe McCarthy." Says Arkansas Congressman Beryl Anthony, who wants Coelho's whip post: "The Republicans should be getting ready to see what this feels like. I think it will be very therapeutic for our members if it dragged out for a while...