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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ethics and politics -- can the two go together? It sometimes seems not. In an eerie parallel to the trials of U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright, Japan's leading politicians are under fire for misunderstanding -- or missing -- the connection. In both countries, the lines are often hard to draw, as changing standards of morality are applied to the fuzzy world of campaign financing...
...Newport Beach, Calif. Just back from a cruise to Jamaica with his wife, the tanned 26-year- old has been thinking things over. "I'm second generation in this, you know, and I don't want my kids to be the third." He jiggles a foot and flops one go-ahead from his toes as he talks. "I'm out. I've never been arrested, and I've never used speed; you can't do that and survive what I do. But you really get an adrenaline rush from doing this sort of thing, and I'm an adrenaline junkie...
...provide such universal benefits as health insurance, but he is prepared to negotiate with Congress on consensus issues like the environment. As Fred McClure, the White House legislative liaison, puts it, "Assuming we can get them on board, and it goes in the direction of where we want to go, there's no point in going through a lot of confrontation...
...cities served by 250 planes before the strike began. Another option, an auction to sell off Eastern in pieces to the highest bidders, could draw such expansion-minded airlines as TWA, American and Delta. Adding to the suspense, sources close to Ueberroth say his game may still go into extra innings...
...scandal for the Democrats assembled around him. It is said that Dwight Eisenhower snapped a pencil in half when his embattled vice-presidential nominee, the younger Richard Nixon, came to the part of his Checkers speech about Pat and the cloth coat. Eisenhower knew then that Nixon was not going to go away but would fight to the death to hold on to his nomination. No one heard any No. 2 lead pencils breaking when Wright said, "There are some things worth fighting for." But it is far from clear that his colleagues were prepared to battle to the last...