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Even Nixon's staunchest defenders left his side once he released the tapes, which undeniably showed the President to be guilty of trying to halt the investigation. As one young White House staff member was quoted as saying, "Oh, those bastards...who've been saying all these things about the president all year--those bastards I hated, they were right...
...with the thought that a quick endorsement might be arranged. Andrew posed a number of detailed questions: Would Dukakis come to New York for the announcement? How would he deal with Jackson? Did Dukakis have a message for Jewish voters? But no agreement was reached before Michigan put a halt to the talks. Andrew found Estrich a difficult, brittle person to deal with, and communications between the two have pretty much shut down, although the two Governors keep in contact...
...interest and fines. The company accountant contacted the IRS to question the ruling and try to reach some sort of settlement. But in February, with the matter still / unresolved, the agency grabbed the firm's bank account. Seddinger could not meet her payroll and had to halt operations. Her Congressman, Democratic Representative Robin Tallon, later managed to get the bank accounts released, but Seddinger is still jousting with the IRS to clear up what she calls "my nightmare...
...major cities throughout much of India last week, millions failed to report to work, shops were shuttered, and business came to a halt as opponents of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi joined in their first nationally organized protest. The bandh, or strike, was led by eight opposition parties, whose demands included Gandhi's resignation and the calling of national elections well in advance of the mandatory deadline of December 1989. In Bombay, India's main commercial center, most state and municipal employees stayed away from work; in Calcutta, where the Marxist-led Left Front is in control, store owners who dared...
...have been in 1980," he told TIME. "I've learned a lot." Aides say the Vice President, a compromiser by nature, has been most impressed by Reagan's ability to hold firm to a staked-out position for as long as possible. Though Bush worried about the 16-month halt in substantive arms-control talks with the Soviet Union, he lauds Reagan's boldness in deploying intermediate-range missiles in Europe until Moscow finally accepted the President's original proposal to ban all INF weapons...