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...Dole has for years been famously tight with contributor Dwayne Andreas, the chairman of agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland. Andreas, along with his company and members of his clan, has provided more than $475,000 for Dole's operations since 1979. Dole has proudly called himself "Senator Ethanol" in honor of the corn-based fuel that ADM produces and that Dole has long protected with tax subsidies. But Dole has also played a crucial role in making the sweetener market profitable for ADM by championing the sugar price-support program. ADM is the world's largest producer of high-fructose...
There is probably no one more loyal to Dole than Washington lawyer and lobbyist Robert Lighthizer, but not everybody fully knows why--and that tale is a classic of Washington back scratching. In the early 1980s, Lighthizer was chief counsel of the Senate Finance Committee and Dole was its chairman. But by 1983, Lighthizer wanted to move on. The Kansas Senator pushed to include a tiny change in an obscure piece of legislation that increased by one the number of deputies in the the U.S. Trade Representative's office. Although he asserts the job wasn't created for him, Lighthizer...
...news conference back home in Erie, Pennsylvania. But neither Republican has anything on two-term Representative Peter Blute, who stood at the President's side as he signed a public-housing bill into law. "I was in the Oval Office," the co-chairman of the Massachusetts Dole-Kemp campaign says, "and Clinton handed...
Somehow the McCourts got by, on driblets from Eire's dole and Angela's uppity kin, who berated her for marrying a sodden Ulsterman. Christmas dinner was no stuffed goose, but a lowly pig's head. No wonder young Frank dimly viewed Catholic priests preaching sacrifice to the pews while lorries delivered riches to their rectories. "Lent, my arse," he mused. "What are we to give up when we have Lent all year long...
...your report on television coverage of the convention in San Diego [THE REPUBLICANS, Aug. 26]: while I accept the dubious honor you bestowed on me as the "gushiest anchorman" for my remarks about Elizabeth Dole's speech, I myself prefer the appellation "kinder, gentler anchorperson." DAN RATHER Anchor and Managing Editor CBS News New York City...