Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fission in Fort Worth...
...esteem of his Democratic colleagues. Now, bushy-browed Jim Wright of Texas is completing his second term as majority leader, and he yearns to follow in the footsteps of fellow Texan Sam Rayburn by becoming House Speaker when Tip O'Neill retires. Wright, 57, has tended his Fort Worth constituency in ways open only to a veteran Congressman. He claims his district has more defense contracts than any other in the country, including at least $18 billion for construction of 1,388 F-16 fighters at the local General Dynamics plant. He also helped persuade the Air Force...
...Wright is a socialist. We had a parting of ways. One day I told him I was going to beat him and get him out of Congress." Responds Wright: "Maybe he feels a guy who owns a ball club can buy a Congressman." The race has deeply divided Fort Worth's establishment of millionaire oilmen and ranchers, who have supported both politicians in the past...
...candidates are equally matched in budgets ($500,000 apiece), and each cites polls to show that he can win. But local political experts are betting on Wright, if for no other reason than his reputation as the most powerful Texan in Congress. Says Fort Worth Star-Telegram Publisher Amon G. Carter Jr.: "I don't agree with the way Jim Wright votes half the time, but I know how important he is in Washington, and he's the only thing we've got up there...
...logbook of their 41-ft. sloop Kalia III, Patti Kamerer, 46, recorded "Anchor up!" on April 28 as she and her husband William, 55, left Fort Myers for a six-month "dream cruise" of the Bahamas. It ended on July 25 with another laconic log entry: "Moored at Pipe Cay." Six days later, Illinois State Representative Harry Yourell, 62, and Son Peter, 20, aboard their 25-ft. cabin cruiser, eased up to the Kalia III and made a grisly discovery: in a dinghy bobbing astern lay a bloated body. The yacht was riddled with shotgun pellets, smeared with blood...