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Like other Washington diarists, Bob Packwood no doubt wishes he had kept his thoughts to himself. And at the end of last week, so did his Senate Republican colleague Phil Gramm of Texas. A March 1992 entry by the Oregon Senator puts himself, Gramm--then head of the G.O.P. committee that finances Senate candidates--and two of their aides in a brief discussion about funneling an illegally large amount of national-party money to Packwood's re-election campaign. "And what was said in that room would be enough to convict us all of something," Packwood wrote to himself. "[Gramm...
...bomb threat to the obscure yet vital New York Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON), where 200 air-traffic controllers usher planes through a 150-mile radius around New York City. "There was reason to believe the caller had knowledge of the building and how it worked," says Phil Barbarello, head of the local traffic controllers' union. So the control center evacuated, and for 75 minutes no planes landed: tens of thousands of passengers across the U.S. were delayed...
...endorses no candidate. Nor, apparently, do Boy Scouts. An attorney for the national scouting organization has sent Phil Gramm's campaign a letter asking the Texas Republican to stop using photos of the Boy Scouts in his presidential campaign literature. (A recent pamphlet shows Gramm with a saluting Boy Scout). Today, Boy Scout spokesman Richard Walker reminded all candidates that images of scouts are off-limits. The Gramm staff had no immediate comment...
Numbers like those are enough to elevate the details of prison administration into presidential campaign planks. As part of his standard stump speech, Texas Senator Phil Gramm says he wants to make inmates work 10 hours a day. At every campaign stop he gets cheers with the line "We've got to stop building prisons like Holiday Inns.'' Gramm has talked about putting Maricopa County's Sheriff Arpaio in charge of the federal prison system...
...same tactics at play today. Every one of Dole's 1996 G.O.P. opponents is swiping at the front runner with increasing ferocity, especially Phil Gramm, the Texas Senator who staged a surprising tie at the Aug. 19 Iowa straw poll most everyone expected Dole to win handily. Of course the Iowa ballot was phony; anyone who bought a ticket could vote, even non-Iowans, and some confessed to having voted more than once. It was still a test of organizational strength, but it was only the first part of a two-pronged strategy: rough Dole up and then cause...