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...local Indian tribe was paying Abramoff's associate Scanlon $13.7 million for public relations work. Subsequent investigations uncovered a flood of e-mail between Abramoff and Scanlon, in which they referred to their Indian clients as, among other epithets, "monkeys" and "losers," even as they charged these clients fees that totaled upward of $66 million. It's far from clear what, precisely, the tribes were getting for their investment. In one instance, Abramoff and Scanlon secretly maneuvered to shut down a Texas casino operated by the Tiguas--only to turn around and offer their services to get it reopened...
...death certificate or obituary. Thus armed, you can explore websites like ancestry.com classmates.com and rootsweb.com At the library, look up the Millers' old addresses in the R.L. Polk directories, which provide census information back to the 1930s, and check the New York Times indexes (available online for a fee) for obituaries and marriage notices. Another possibility is Social Security's letter-forwarding service...
...deficit by $338 billion over the next three years. The original Senate budget contained only $295.2 billion in deficit reductions by 1988, while the House budget proposed an even less impressive $259. 1 billion in savings. The new plan has two particularly controversial features: a $5-per-bbl. fee on imported oil that would bring in some $25 billion over the next three years; and a biennial, rather than annual, inflation adjustment on income taxes as well as Social Security and other entitlement programs, which would save the Government $19 billion...
House reaction to the Senate offer was hardly encouraging. Said O'Neill: "I'm stubbornly opposed to any drop in COLAs this year or next year." New York Republican Jack Kemp blasted the oil-fee idea. "It hits consumers. It raises the cost of living. It's protectionist." But Pennsylvania Democrat William Gray, chairman of the House Budget Committee, was more cautious. Said he: "The question here is, Has the President now changed his position on revenues? Is the President prepared to support taxes?" If so, Gray added, "it's a new ball game...
...Democratic members of the Senate Finance Committee, Spark Matsunaga of Hawaii asked if a convalescent Reagan might be open to the idea of a tax hike. Replied Bush: "Sparky, he didn't have a lobotomy; he had a cancer operation." Reagan told a reporter who asked about the oil fee, "I'm not for any taxes." But White House aides put out the word that the President, in what could prove a major concession, would go along with the oil fee if the House accepted most of the Senate deficit-reduction plan. "When the dynamics of this thing play...