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Another Capitol Hill aide who says he worked as a double agent is Kenneth R. Tolliver, 42, now an advertising man in Greenville, Miss. In 1966, Tolliver joined the staff of Mississippi's Senator James O. Eastland, a staunch friend of the Pentagon. Although U.S. intelligence sources cast doubt on some parts of his story, Tolliver says he was recruited by the Soviets in 1968 and-with the approval of the FBI-began providing information. He also performed chores for the Russians, such as getting labor permits and Social Security cards for "illegals"-a term for spies. That same...
...Carmichael, the Institute fellow who narrowly lost the governor's race in Mississippi last year, said that he was in Tennessee this week and that Reagan supporters there predict their candidate may be out of the race within a week...
Though more than half of the nation's coal lies west of the Mississippi, the industry still concentrates heavily on working the old veins of Appalachia and the Midwest. They are still rich enough to support what has become an industry of corporate giants. Some 1,200 companies work small mines, but they account for only 40% of output. The other 60% comes from 15 companies, led by Peabody Coal of St. Louis and Consolidation Coal of Pittsburgh. Only three of the 15-Pittston (No. 5), North American (No. 10) and Westmoreland (No. 13)-are independent; the rest...
...tally, Jimmy Carter had 18.5% of the vote, followed by Fred Harris with 16.5%, Lloyd Bentsen with 12.5% and George Wallace with 10.5%; another 41% of the votes were uncommitted. Afterward, Texas Senator Bentsen looked hard at his bleak third place, which followed an even worse fourth place in Mississippi last month, and sensibly decided to pull out of the presidential race...
...lists ("the very names a litany--Prairie du Chien, La Crosse, Winona, Wabasha, Red Wing") and inconsequent facts ("that watercourse which Anthony Trollope thought the finest in the world"). His airplane-window view of America inspires musings on our manifest destiny--he looks out over "the watershed of the Mississippi, the valleys of Ohio and the plainslands of Missouri, a continent in itself as surely designed for America's use as a woman's womb for the seed of humanity"--and memories of the red loess in the mountains of Siam. The whole thing gets to be a little diffuse...