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Long won a close race for majority whip, and when Olin Johnston died the following year, he got the desk back as well. He has not had to swap it since. But that is not to say he would not ? if the quid were worth the quo. Russell Long has raised the art of political horse trading to the highest level in living congressional memory. An unabashed wheeler-dealer, he scratches backs with a fine, silken stroke, then calls in his debts with a firm arm twist. He also repays his own lous with interest. "I gave Russell...
...base for further struggle against Israel. Time and again, P.L.O. leaders, including Yasser Arafat, have said they would settle for a Palestinian entity on any Arab territory given up by Israel-implying a willingness to coexist, albeit reluctantly, with the Jewish state. To promise more without getting a quid pro quo would be difficult for Arafat, who has a diffused and unwieldy constituency to satisfy...
...There is some evidence," Heimann's report concluded, "tending to support the view that, but for the correspondent accounts, the loans would not have been made." Heimann noted, however, that such a quid pro quo is not of itself illegal. It must also be shown that the Fulton bank received benefits from Calhoun's interest-free deposit. In this case, Heimann found that Fulton's services to Lance's bank actually cost more than the revenues from the Calhoun money...
...reveal-and rebut-new questions Heimann had raised about a $2.6 million loan to Lance by New York's Manufacturers Hanover Trust in April 1975, soon after he became president of the National Bank of Georgia. The big question is whether Lance got the credit as an improper quid pro quo for having his NBG place an interest-free deposit with "Manny Hanny...
...labor's quid failed to produce the anticipated quo. The House, in a stunning rebuff to the unions, last month rejected the common-situs picketing bill, which would have allowed one striking union to shut down an entire construction site. The same week, the White House came out for a $2.50 minimum wage-50? less than the AFL-CIO had demanded and only a 2? increase over the present minimum. "Shameful," spluttered Meany...