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There were no formalities, no inspection of visas. The security guard deposited our passports in his pocket, where they remained for the duration of our nine-hour stay...
...their lips. Then there was a small knocking on wood. It was a blond. A blond to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looked by moonlight. She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket. "Cops are just people," she said irrelevantly. "They start out that way, I've heard...
Ever since he moved into the White House, Ronald Reagan has complained that Government ethics laws are based on a double standard: while they regulate the activities of former members of the Executive Branch, they do not apply to ex-Congressmen and ex-Senators. Last week, by pocket-vetoing a tough measure that would have restricted lobbying by former federal employees, including members of Congress and their top aides, the President missed his last chance to unhinge the revolving door through which officials turn into lobbyists after leaving the Government...
Last week the legislation ran afoul of President Reagan. Stating that the bill "cannot be reconciled" with constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech, Reagan refused to sign it. His pocket veto infuriated lobbyists like Peggy Charren, president of Action for Children's Television, who called Reagan's refusal a form of "ideological child abuse." Democrat Edward Markey of Massachusetts, a co-sponsor of the House bill, said 20% of U.S. television stations exceed the proposed limits on commercials. He plans to reintroduce the measure next year and hopes for a more favorable response from the new Administration...
...says Graham's campaign accuses Thompson of being "in the pocket of developers" and against rent control. Albano charges that Thompson supports Proposition 1-2-3, a 1989 municipal ballot question that would make it easier to take apartments off of rent control. But Thompson said he has oppossed the measure since he heard of it in September...