Word: funds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jackson's need for respect still shows. He bristles at slights. At a recent fund raiser, a white contributor stood up to pledge a sum of money and lectured Jackson in hard language that he'd have to be more cooperative. Jackson swore back at him and told him to keep his money. Recalls Jackson: "He thought his cash gave him that right." Questions that call attention to his broad black support bring an edge of anger to his voice. He points to another candidate. "Does Mike Dukakis worry only about Greeks...
...Chicago, the Terra Museum of American Art has a different agenda. Daniel Terra, 76, head of Lawter International Inc., the Illinois-based manufacturing firm, raised millions for Ronald Reagan's campaign fund and was given the Ruritanian honorific of "Ambassador-at-Large for Cultural Affairs" -- as though culture, to an Administration that spends virtually as much on military bands as on the National Endowment for the Arts, were a foreign state. Ambassador Terra, as he likes to be called, is an enthusiastic buyer of 18th, 19th and early 20th century American...
...photo opportunity on Friday, Reagan made the baffling assertion that he had not "heard a single word" indicating that any crime was committed. That was a worrisome indication that he still may not understand what went on ! -- or may not want to. Two contra fund raisers have already pleaded guilty to a conspiracy to defraud the Government, and there has been clear evidence of destruction of official documents as well as probable unauthorized use of Government funds...
...organizations of the fractionalized industry are showing a rare unanimity in demanding action. Groups representing the airlines, the pilots and corporate aircraft owners presented to Congress a plan to improve safety and service. It recommends that the Government use the current $6 billion surplus in the federal aviation trust fund to meet such goals as expanding airport capacity and hastening the development of more modern traffic-control systems. Over the years, flying has been a safe way to travel, and the airline industry is determined to keep it that...
...hearings, said Inouye, produced a vision of"a secret government, directed principally byNational Security Council staffers, accountable tonot a single elected official, includingapparently the president himself--a shadowygovernment with its own air force, its own navy,its own, fund-raising mechanism, and the abilityto pursue its own ideas of national interest, freefrom all checks and balances and the law itself...