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...away, arriving in motor homes as early as Thursday for parties, concerts, qualifying rounds and a junior-circuit Saturday race called the Busch Series. The local newspaper estimates that race fans will drop nearly $70 million into local pockets, and the money starts flowing at a Friday-night fund raiser for local children's charities. About 300 people have come to eyeball their racing heroes and bid on auction items like hats, uniforms and a Jeff Gordon jacket...
...control of the shaky Gore presidential campaign? Was it Bill Clinton, as restless as a sidelined Michael Jordan during play-off season, who had been muttering quietly to just about everyone for weeks that his buddy Al's campaign was a mess? Was it the President's killer fund raiser and old Coelho protege, Terry McAuliffe, who fretted daily into his cell phone about the way things were going? Or, wait--maybe it was Dick Gephardt, another Coelho friend, with whom Gore has suddenly become comrades-in-arms again after a nasty Ten Years War? Surely the Speaker-in-waiting...
Another key fund raiser is Bujar Bukoshi. One of the two would-be Prime Ministers of a still nonexistent Republic of Kosova, the Bonn-based Bukoshi claims that his government-in-exile has spent more than $4 million on arms and supplies for the K.L.A. in the weeks since NATO bombings began. At Bukoshi's request his "finance minister"--extremely nervous and clearly on edge--presents a computer printout that he says documents part of the Republic of Kosova Fund's holdings in a bank in Tirana, Albania: more than $33 million...
...Democratic ghosts from the past came back to Washington on Tuesday to raise once again the twin policy spectres that have bedeviled the Clinton administration?s second term: China and campaign finances. Johnny Chung, the controversial Democratic fund-raiser who pleaded guilty last year to making illegal campaign contributions, was called in by Republicans to testify before the House Government Reform Committee about his contacts with various Chinese officials and executives, including the head of Chinese military intelligence. While his testimony revealed few new details, his appearance on the Hill gave the Clinton administration another bad China day. "Coming...
...second spirit from the past was brought back by the Democrats themselves. Vice President Al Gore, seeking to bring order and a sense of direction to his sluggish campaign, named former congressman Tony Coelho, a once formidable Democratic strategist and fund-raiser, to be its general chairman. "Coelho is the person who brought the Democratic party into the modern era of world-class fund-raising by hitting powerful business interests," says TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty. "The appointment is surprising because it?s a double-edged sword" that could be used by Gore?s opponents. While Coelho?s modern...