Word: harboring
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This week the hard part begins when Bush sits down with Gorbachev in a Coast Guard admiral's mansion on Governors Island, a site in New York harbor that was picked for security reasons. In proposing the meeting, Gorbachev said he wanted to dramatize his hope for continuity in Soviet-American relations. But no doubt he also wants to use the meeting to remind the world that his own foreign policy is up and running, while the U.S. is only just recovering from a distracting and unedifying presidential race...
...Northeast is alive and well," said thegovernor, who is depending on federal aid forcritical transportation projects in Boston'sCentral Artery and the building of a new tunnelunder Boston Harbor...
Specifically, he said, Mitchell could beexpected to press for action on acid rain,affordable housing and other issues of concern tothe region. Carpman also said Mitchell appreciatedthe significance of the multibillion-dollarCentral Artery and Harbor Tunnel project...
...considered drugs the most important campaign issue, the vote split evenly, despite Dukakis' efforts to tie Bush to the "drug-running Panamanian dictator" Manuel Noriega. The environment should have been a "gimme" for Dukakis, Gallup found, but Bush stole it by pointing to Boston's polluted harbor. Although Bush has a poor environmental record, he won 48% of the vote among the 72% who believed more money should be spent on the environment; at the same time, Bush won two-thirds of the voters who opposed new environmental spending...
...REMEMBRANCE (ABC, Nov. 13-23). Cast of thousands! Cost of millions! Makes Roots look like a sapling! This mammoth sequel to The Winds of War will spend 30-plus hours -- 18 now, at least twelve next year -- following Navy officer "Pug" Henry (Robert Mitchum) from Pearl Harbor...