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...President's close friend Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada was chosen once again to place Reagan's name in nomination. In so doing, he praised the President's brand of leadership as "guts with reason," citing as an example his decision to send U.S. troops to the Caribbean island of Grenada. Said Laxalt: "He made the tough call. If he hadn't, Grenada today might well be in the Soviet orbit." The Nevada Senator was sharply effective in his attacks on the Democratic Party, which he said "is now the home of special interests, the social...
Vice President Bush, the putative front runner for 1988, has tried to become a born-anew Reaganite, religiously defending the fiscal creed he once called "voodoo economics." Nevada Senator and Reagan Friend Paul Laxalt gives him credit for "making significant progress as the ultimate consummate good soldier." But even though Bush has lived in Texas far longer than in his native Connecticut, he cannot escape his Andover-Yale-Skull-and-Bones heritage, nor can he hide his gee-whiz preppie manner. As Laxalt says, "Many conservatives feel that anyone who has been near an Ivy League school is suspect...
...Democratic Convention in San Francisco, he screened out rivals from an exclusive interview with Joan Mondale by having his crew and her aides form a human fence. Last week he was able to use more traditional tactics, prearranging talks with party elders like Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada. Between glances at his color-coded floor map and scurrying to his next "target of opportunity," Wallace described his convention role as "part journalist, part producer, part booking agent, part offensive lineman." He might have added, part agent provocateur. Like his father, CBS Correspondent Mike Wallace, Chris has an instinct for seeking...
...Cook County, Ill., case that was part of the Greylord investigation of judicial corruption, Judge John G. Laurie was cleared of bribery and other charges in part because the jury did not believe testimony against him by several corrupt witnesses, including two police officers. And the first trial of Nevada Federal Judge Harry Claiborne ended in a hung jury in April because the jurors gave little credence to the testimony of Joe Conforte, a thrice-convicted felon, former international fugitive and once owner of the Silver State's most notorious brothel. The raspy-voiced, Sicilian-born Conforte resembled...
CONVICTED. Harry Claiborne, 67, controversial chief judge of Nevada's U.S. District Court since 1978 and the first sitting judge ever found guilty of a crime committed while on the bench; of two counts of filing false tax returns for 1979 and 1980; in Reno. It was Claiborne's second trial; the first, dominated by additional charges that he took bribes from a brothel keeper, ended last April in a hung jury. Those charges have since been dropped...