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...traditional front runner. Aside from the Colorado delegation, Hart's avowed congressional supporters could caucus under the same umbrella. Old-line party financiers who actively supported Walter Mondale in 1984 find Hart's diffident style difficult to accept. "Hart I can't see," says a prominent Southern fund raiser. "If I don't know who he is, I don't know how he can win." Labor leaders, who remember Hart's blistering attacks on Mondale's ties to special interests, are equally skittish. As Don McKee, a leading Iowa union official, puts it, "The name Hart doesn't come...
Haig has no geographic or ideological base of support. The support he does have is mainly among boardroom Republicans. One unlikely backer is Comedian Mort Sahl, who appeared at a Haig fund raiser on the eve of the announcement and later quipped, "I'm the head of Radicals for Haig in Beverly Hills." If nothing else, a Haig campaign -- with its promise of exuberant intensity and occasional mangled jargon -- should make for good copy...
...Retired Army Major General John Singlaub, a fund raiser for the contras, threw some light on the origin of the idea of diverting Iranian arms-sales profits to the Nicaraguan rebels. In an interview with the Washington Post, Singlaub said he had suggested to two countries -- identified by the paper as Taiwan and South Korea -- that they pay a markup for weapons they were buying (such as torpedoes that Taiwan was purchasing from Israel) so that the extra funds could be diverted to Singlaub's contra-supply network. Further, said Singlaub, he had told North about this scheme in early...
...This fund-raiser is worthwhile because it actually involves sending people out to these places to help clean the whole community, while raising money for the homeless and the hungry," said Stephanie A. Altman '90, head of recruitment for HHAC...
...firm also was retained by Washington fund-raiser Carl "Spitz" Channell to help conduct a pro-Contra public relations campaign and funnel privately raised money to the Contras. Channell associates have said that as much as $3 million in private aid was given to IBC for humanitarian aid to the Contras...