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...outlandish fees and got them to make donations that underwrote his lifestyle, his kids' education and the luxury travel of his favorite politician. But for those who were recipients of the largesse that Abramoff could afford with his clients' money, exposure is a frightening prospect. House majority leader Tom DeLay, that luxury traveler, has already been burned by his association with Abramoff. The latest disclosures about the lobbyist's methods have dusted up two more Republican notables: antitax activist Grover Norquist and Christian conservative Ralph Reed. Their names came up in the thousands of e-mails released last week...
...another development, Stephen Cardinal Kim Sou Hwan, the Roman Catholic primate of South Korea, last week endorsed the calls for reform. The Philippine Catholic Church played an important role in toppling Marcos. "There are no reasons why the revisions should be delayed," said Cardinal Kim. "We have to bring democracy to Korea urgently." Added Dissident Kim Young Sam, an N.K.D.P. adviser: "To delay democratization is to deny...
...craft. David Ignatius of the Washington Post decided to look instead at whether the press caused some of the pressure. He picked as his most egregious example this lead-in by Rather, broadcast the night before the blowup: "Yet another costly, red-faces-all-around space shuttle-launch delay. This time a bad bolt on a hatch and a bad-weather bolt from the blue are being blamed. What's more, a rescheduled launch for tomorrow doesn't look good either. Bruce Hall has the latest on today's high-tech low comedy." It is hard to imagine Cronkite, trying...
Printing deadlines can be set back, and they were. But to ensure that the magazine reached its readers with the smallest possible delay, all aspects of the process, which normally takes most of the week, had to be compressed into less than a day. To handle the abundance of late reporting transmitted from Iceland, where clocks are four hours later, writers and editors assigned to the story in New York City began their work before dawn on Sunday...
Reagan said that late on Sunday afternoon he made "an entirely new proposal" to Gorbachev: "a ten-year delay in deployment of SDI in exchange for the complete elimination of all ballistic missiles from the respective arsenals of both nations." It was the Soviet leader, Reagan said, who balked. "The General Secretary said he would consider our offer only if we restricted all work on SDI to laboratory research, which would have killed our defensive shield...