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...flights. But what Sununu did once he got off the planes is beginning to raise serious ethical questions and, in at least one case, points to the possibility of unlawful conflict of interest. During a three-day ski trip to Aspen, Colo., last December, Sununu in effect received free lift tickets, lodging and meals in return for speaking at an annual ski-industry conference. In addition, the $802 round-trip airfare for his wife Nancy was paid for by the American Ski Federation. The federation is a Washington-based lobbying arm for the ski industry -- not a nonprofit educational group...
After the first stories broke, officials unfriendly to Sununu quietly pushed a second, more damaging wave of allegations: Sununu not only made excessive use of Air Force planes, but when he traveled to ski resorts to give speeches, he sometimes also accepted free lodging, lift tickets and airfare for his wife. Such charges embarrassed the ethics-sensitive Bush Administration, while + providing a tempting target for Sununu's many enemies. They include...
President F.W. de Klerk's policy of dismantling apartheid has reaped its biggest foreign policy reward to date. Meeting in Luxembourg last week, the 12-nation European Community voted unanimously to lift the group's remaining economic sanctions against Pretoria. As soon as it is formalized, the move will end a five-year-old ban on the importation of South African iron, steel and gold coins that had accounted for $700 million in annual trade before the embargo went into effect...
...that game, Harvard's Don Rogers scored in sudden-death overtime to lift the then seventh-ranked Crimson over a second-ranked and undefeated Yale squad, 8-7. The goal, which silenced a crowd of nearly 3000 in New Haven, secured Harvard a share of the Ivy League title...
...final game on Saturday, a traditionally weak M.I.T. squad shocked Harvard by opening up a 9-6 lead entering the final frame. But the weary Crimson rose to the occasion, firing in a mammoth seven goals in the closing period to lift Harvard to dramatic 13-11 victory...