Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mitchell and Campaign Finance Chairman Maurice Stans, who were indicted along with Vesco, were acquitted in 1974. Though Vesco is safe from extradition from the Bahamas, where he fled in 1978, he is eager to resume his career as a globe-trotting financier. U.S. investigators have already tried to collar him: last winter in an operation of questionable legality, the FBI made plans to seize Vesco on a commercial flight between Costa Rica and the Bahamas and divert the plane to Florida. Vesco was tipped off and avoided the trap...
...also substantially protected from inflation and old age. And he is close to being recession-proof, living blissfully in what former Attorney General Griffin Bell calls "the land of the lotus eaters." Including the 9.1% pay raise that took effect in October, the average annual salary for federal white-collar employees is $23,000 in the capital area. Federal pensions are boosted to keep up with the cost of living not once but twice a year, costing taxpayers an extra annual $500 million. When President Carter tried to reduce that raise, the federal employees' unions mounted a zealous lobbying...
Still, the peace issue is hurting Reagan. One example: in Illinois, a Republican has to run up big margins in the five "collar counties" around Chicago to offset the Democratic city tally and win the state's vital 26 electoral votes. But in DuPage County, where Ford took 71% of the vote in 1976, Democratic polls show Reagan pulling only 50%. Says County Democratic Coordinator Sue Ellen Johnson: "It's the feeling that Reagan is not up to it mentally and that he is not afraid of war as much as he should be." Republican leaders in DuPage...
...larger margin (43% to 36%) than he did in September (39% to 36%). One partial explanation may be that Catholics have shifted toward the President (43% favor him now, compared with 38% last month). On the other hand, however, Reagan is now even with Carter among blue-collar workers, whereas Carter led by 10 points in September. The race in the heavily populated industrial regions remains extremely close. The shift of very few percentage points would swing not only those states but the election as well...
Almost every Democratic leader is sweating out the campaign, and a few may go down to defeat, including House Democratic Whip John Brademas of Indiana. His opponent, Republican Businessman John Hiler, is working the factory gates for the blue-collar vote in a district that includes Elkhart County, where unemployment is nearly 16%. Trailing 12 points in the polls, Brademas is pouring tens of thousands of dollars into a media blitz that attacks Hiler as a tool of Big Oil because he opposes the windfall-profits tax. In Texas, House Majority Leader Jim Wright is in the toughest fight...