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Bill Ruback of the National Park Service took his best men to join forces with a crew from the Davey Tree Expert Co., low bidders (about $9,000) on the 120-mile moving job. They arrived with backhoe, crane, tractor trailer, chain, wire and a burlap tarp made in Baltimore just for this tree. They were met with 90 qts. of Mrs. Myers' homemade soup, dozens of sandwiches, gallons of coffee and enough neighborly warmth to discourage winter...
...task of removing the bodies from Guyana and embalming them was expensive, but the Government would not yet predict the total costs. The fact that U.S. taxpayers were bearing the cost upset at least two Congressmen, Illinois Republican Philip Crane and Rhode Island Democrat Edward Beard. They publicly protested the use of federal funds (unofficial estimates of the cost have run as high as $8 million) to transport and process the decayed remains. Said Crane: "Although the entire situation is deplorable, the responsibility to bring the loved ones back to the United States rests with the families, not the Federal...
...remember, as I crane my neck to see the black township areas from the highway as we drive past, that some Harvard official--was it Larry Stevens?--was reported to have said last year that parts of Soweto were not so dreadful, that they had paved roads and telephones. I can't figure out where they took him. Most of Soweto has no electricity, much less paved roads; in fact, the township's administrative board is currently conducting a survey to determine whether Soweto residents want electricity. Hard to believe a survey is really necessary...
...think the media has been lazy," Debra Garrett, Crampton's press secretary said last night. "There were a lot of real issues in this campaign--real favoritism and corruption on Crane's part--that were lost in the Hatch-King glamor...oh, what have I said," Garrett giggled, sipping out of a wine glass...
...ironic that Crane can win when he has erred so consistently in the past," Crampton said. He said that media visibility and "a lack of grass-roots campaigning and support like the Democrats had" hurt his campaign, but (smiling all the time) said, "I'll be back...