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Details of the scandal remain murky. But this much seems clear: Perot insists that he received a tip-off that high-level Republicans were plotting to wiretap his office telephone last August -- even though he had pulled out of the presidential race in July. Acting largely on information provided by both Perot and Scott Barnes -- a shady storyteller with a prior conviction for tape-recording his telephone conversations with other people -- Oliver ("Buck") Revell, the head of the FBI office in Dallas, sent an undercover agent disguised as a cowboy to meet with James Oberwetter, state chairman of the Bush...
Jordan is considered a top prospect for attorney general or another high-level Clinton administration post...
...days, it looked as if the on-again-off-again negotiations for a worldwide trade accord, as part of the Uruguay Round of GATT talks, were finally coming to an end. High-level U.S. and E.C. leaders were said to be ever so close to signing an agreement. They weren't close enough. At the last minute the talks foundered on the same sensitive issue that has persistently stymied negotiators: farm subsidies. Unless France reverses its rigid opposition to European concessions, it appears that a trade pact, if one is ever signed, will come too late to bolster George Bush...
Equally abhorrent, the FBI was not an intruder, but a welcome guest on campus in the eyes of top administrators. At both Harvard and Yale, high-level liaisons were charged with the specific task of coordinating relations with the FBI. Diamond says it was likely that then-Provost Paul H. Buck was the liaison at Harvard...
Fridrich and some other state leaders serve at Perot's pleasure. Without the advice of local volunteers, Perot headquarters has handpicked representatives, who are flown to Dallas for high-level meetings. Some of these leaders owe their positions to the dedication they showed earlier in the campaign. Others, however, belong to the tycoon's large network of personal cronies...