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...firefights in search of a clear battlefield. Gore, Jackson and Dukakis emphasized a theme that is bound to play a role in the fall election: the willingness of Reagan and Bush to cozy up to the Noriega regime even after there was evidence that he was serving as a conduit for drug profits. Says Gore: "I believe that George Bush needs to be held accountable for that failure in policy come November...
...advisers, the savvy Lewis, 50, is known as the "mother of us all." A former political director of the Democratic National Committee, a thoughtful, deep-dyed liberal and feminist, Lewis rarely accompanies Jackson but acts as a kind of backboard off which he bounces ideas. She functions as a conduit to party Pooh-Bahs and the media...
...mysteries of the past, but in its most recent incarnations it has become a fusion of two distinct traditions. The first of these traditions is the expense account, by which the wealth of the nation is funneled out of the hands of the worker via the conduit of large corporations and is then frittered away by hedonistically juvenile executives. The second tradition is that of the star schmooze, in which second string critics from minor newspapers in unimportant cities have lunch with celebrities while asking questions like, "So, what was it like working with Eddie?" as though Mr. Murphy were...
...spiritual core of the universe. "I had recently returned from nearly six years in London," she says. "And I wondered what these people had to do with the English Channel." But Cronin was soon immersed in sessions with a jolly Manhattan channeler named Bob Johnson, who served as her conduit for a wide-ranging, exclusive interview with beings on the stars of Alpha Centauri...
...Sandinista regime, Hull was a leader of the network that helped sustain the rebels' "southern front." His airstrips were used by planes that supplied U.S. weapons, food and clothes to the contras, his ranch house was the site of delicate negotiations among contra factions, and he was a conduit for money used to support rebel activities. Directly across the San Carlos River from Hull's ranch sits a powerful radio transmitter for the Voice of America, which broadcasts daily into Nicaragua. Though Hull claims he was never on the CIA's payroll, he admits he was an agency liaison, "providing...