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...deals with the high-spending sheik. When Middleman Joseph Silvestri first approached Congressman James Florio in his office on Capitol Hill, he was turned down. Silvestri then called Florio at home, inviting the Congressman out for a "good time" and adding that his friends were "very, very generous." Florio finally hung up on him. A top Justice Department official makes the point strongly that the FBI did not in the least encourage Silvestri to make this kind of pitch; he did it all on his own initiative. But it did happen...
Though Friday was stunned at first by some of the aggressiveness and language of the male fantasies, she came away from the project with a high opinion of men. "Men really are generous, not so conditional about offering love and sex," she says. "Women are withholding. Everything we give, we give with strings attached-'I'll love you if you do this, but not if you go too far,' or, 'I'll love you if you marry me.' The man always has to pay, but with all that pushing away, he persists...
...conspicuously, so all can know they are members of the "Press Corps." The Secret Service men don't have much to do--hostility looks beyond the emotional range of most of those occupied with the turkey roll. So they talk about the coat check girl, or rather about her generous, black-sweatered bosom...
Many Third World nations have discovered that the Soviets, for all their support of revolution and liberation movements, can be uncomfortable, even unpleasant, allies. They are generous with arms but stingy with other economic aid, and their advisers are often boorish "ugly Russians." If nothing else, the Soviets are persistent, and they accept setbacks as only temporary. The Kremlin also has a word for regimes that have adopted Communism and the Moscow line: irreversible...
...most serious dampener on anti-government church action is the very fact that there is a sizeable pro-Marcos bloc, which forces the moderates to balance the two groups' demands in order to avoid polarization. Through generous dispensation of money, and granting of favors the government lobbies certain churchmen as if the were U.S. Congressmen. Imelda even has a Jesuit speechwriter...