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After a somber and sometimes impassioned debate, the House of Representatives last week voted 243 to 141 to issue a formal apology to the 120,000 Japanese Americans who were forcibly sent to resettlement camps in World War II. In addition, the resolution provides $50 million for a fund to educate the public about the detainment program and a controversial $1.2 billion in restitution payments to the approximately 60,000 survivors of the camps...
Robertson's ability to draw new, enthusiastic workers into dreary political scut work was most evident at the meeting in Ames, a fund-raising dinner that featured a straw poll for those who bought $25 tickets and had an Iowa driver's license. The Bush campaign, along with those of Bob Dole and Jack Kemp, went all out to pack the arena with supporters. But even before the first candidate spoke, it was obvious that Robertson's forces had pulled off a coup. Dressed in white T shirts and hats emblazoned with their champion's name, they clearly outnumbered...
These days there are no fund-raising letters with his name, like those that appeared a year ago following his victory in the Michigan precinct-level delegate elections, declaring "The Christians have won!" He emphasizes tolerance, denying vehemently a quote attributed to him that only born-again Christians and Jews should hold Government jobs. But he volunteers in an interview that nonbelievers would have no place in a Robertson Administration because "I don't think that atheists have their act together...
Since that trip to France, three years ago this past winter, a degree of change has visited Louisiana as well as Sam. The oil and gas economy, crumbling badly then, is all but bust now. The man in whose name the fund- raising Parisian expedition had been made, Edwin Edwards, the Governor, has suffered two bruising trials on charges of making a small fortune through influence peddling, basically, and has been acquitted. Nonetheless, when looking at a possible fourth term, Edwards told Sam that maybe he should sit this one out. Sam agreed, thinking, "Ever since we carried...
...really ministered to us today, didn't He?" she quoted Fletcher as telling Bakker during a televised fund-raiser. `Yeah, he really did,"' Bakker was said to have replied...