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Ferraro returned to the room in ten minutes, the sound system repaired. When she spoke, no nervousness showed. "I released more than anybody has released in the history of this country," she boasted of her financial disclosures. Ferraro quickly and effectively established that she was fluent with the facts and that she would not be pushed around. "Let's stop there first of all and correct that," she said to the opening questioner who stated that money from her husband's business financed her 1978 campaign. "My money paid for my campaign ..." When she was asked a complex and tendentious...
...many ways, there is little difference between the two men. Both are telegenic politicians, fluent in English and French. Mulroney has never held public office, and Turner has not held elective office since resigning as Finance Minister eight years ago. (Mulroney, who took over the Conservatives in June 1983, won his parliamentary seat two months later). Both are corporate lawyers who favor a mild rightward shift in government. Neither advocates a major assault on Canada's extensive social-welfare system, although both favor long-term reductions in the country's U.S. $22.5 billion federal deficit (7.7% of last...
Amfitheatrof's files, along with those of Washington Correspondent William Stewart, who interviewed State Department officials, retired Ambassadors to Moscow and Kremlinologists, went to Associate Editor John Kohan, who wrote the main story. Says Kohan, who speaks fluent Russian and has visited the Soviet Union six times: "It's hard to remember, from my days in Leningrad as a student during detente, that the Russians once spoke confidently about good relations with...
...Smith has admitted taking many trips in 11981 and 1982 to Japan, which was then a hotbed of KGB activity, according to the testimony of a Soviet defector. On three occasions in the course of those trips, Smith met Victor Okunev, a Soviet consular-affairs official in Tokyo. Short, fluent in Japanese, and an active member of the Japan-Soviet Union Friendship Association, Okunev is assumed by U.S. officials to be a KGB agent. According to Waguespack, Smith admitted giving classified information about Royal Miter to Okunev and accepting the $11,000 from him in Tokyo...
...tone for the Midwest stop was set en route from the West Coast. As champagne was being poured in the galley, the French contingent's well-meaning but far-from-fluent American stewardess announced that "champignon " would soon be served. Her passengers whooped with ungallant laughter. In Gaylesburg, Ill., to tour Secretary of Agriculture John Block's 3,000-acre farm, Mitterrand donned rubber boots, a farmer's cap and a sky-blue jacket with MR. PRESIDENT stitched over the heart. He and Block disagreed about American exports undercutting European Community farmers, but Mitterrand lightened the mood...