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From his early campaigns in South Carolina through the 1988 presidential election, Lee Atwater has displayed a talent for smearing opponents and then either apologizing or suffering memory lapses about his role. Months after the Willie Horton issue had polluted Campaign '88, Atwater told reporters he wished he had never heard of the black rapist he helped pin on Michael Dukakis...
...passenger was Jacob F. (Jake) Horton, 57, a Gulf Power vice president who had hastily arranged to fly to Atlanta, headquarters of Southern Co., the utility's corporate parent. Since last year a federal grand jury in Atlanta has been looking into suspicious accounting practices in the spare-parts department at Southern Co., but the inquiry has grown into a broad investigation of alleged tax fraud and graft at the utility and its subsidiaries, including Gulf Power. On the day of the crash, Horton was told by Gulf Power officials that an internal auditing group had recommended his dismissal after...
...Horton's death was only one of a series of unsolved mysteries that have embroiled Gulf Power. Last December Ray Howell, a Pensacola graphic artist who worked for Gulf, traveled to Atlanta but disappeared prior to a scheduled appearance before the grand jury. A month later, former Gulf Power director Robert McRae and his wife were found shot to death at their home in Graceville, Fla. In the weeks since the crash, three dead yellow birds -- which Levin believes are Mafia-style warnings not to divulge the substance of his last conversation with Horton -- have been deposited outside the attorney...
Levin has accused Gulf Power of "trying to make the public believe Jake set the plane on fire" by telling only their side of the story behind Horton's imminent dismissal. Executives of Gulf Power and Southern have clammed up, refusing to give more information until authorities determine the cause of the mishap. One thing is sure: no matter what the investigation turns up, many people in Pensacola will insist that the crash that killed Jake Horton was no accident...
...began in 1968, when enormous quantities of oil were discovered at Prudhoe Bay. In 1969 the state held an auction for oil-drilling leases and suddenly found itself $900 million richer. Almost overnight, tens of thousands of Americans followed the advice in the chorus of the Johnny Horton pop tune, "North to Alaska! Go north -- the rush is on!" The state began to fill with drilling crews, geologists and oil-company executives. The barren North Slope, where only a few Inupiat, or Eskimos, had lived, now bristled with hard-hatted workers who were hardy enough to endure temperatures that could...