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Gates' appetite for elaborate security has been the subject of a mounting feud between the L.A.P.D. and the L.A.O.O.C. The Olympic Committee has a $100 million budget, most of it tied up in individual contracts with state and local police departments. Chief Gates, however, negotiated a special clause in his $15.7 million pact, making him the final arbiter of Olympic security in the city of Los Angeles and making the L.A.O.O.C. liable for any increased costs. Last week Gates invoked the agreement and demanded more guards for the Olympic sites and Villages, a move that could hike his contract...
...river which separates the two nations. Unfortunately, this analysis is overly optimistic; the increased importance of frontier areas can just as easily create new tensions. The recent discovery of oil deep in the jungle along the border between Ecuador and Peru, for example, has only intensified the long-standing feud between the two nations...
...suppose it was a fair test," responded Bartley. "Voters expect a certain amount of knowledge on these issues. But we are not candidates on Family Feud...
...Hart-Mondale clash was more than a family feud between like-minded rivals. Their differences have reopened a debate that has flared periodically since America assumed the mantle of global leadership after World War II, namely, the degree to which the U.S. should intervene abroad when its interests or those of its allies are affected. With most domestic issues too complex or gray to rouse voters, concerns about the U.S. role abroad have come to dominate the Democrats' race. Says Mondale Press Secretary Maxine Isaacs: "The campaign has boiled down to foreign policy...
...unhappy with some of his rulings. Among them: Claiborne's occasional refusal to issue search warrants and his dismissal of several cases brought before him by the U.S. Government. Oscar Goodman, Claiborne's chief counsel, says that the judge is a victim of the long-running feud between federal lawmen and the Nevada Establishment. Says he: "The feds have tried to create the picture that we're all crooks and Mafia soldiers crawling around here...