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...criticized as a prime example of Washington's salesman culture. A TIME investigation reveals just how excessive it was: at tables sold for $25,000 apiece were oilmen seeking to lift U.S. embargoes against Iran and Libya; nuclear-plant owners looking for government backing of a burial ground for reactor waste; and coal, refinery and utility executives out to ease pollution standards. In addition to writing the kind of huge soft-money checks that the reform bill would outlaw, energy firms lent about 20 of their officials and lobbyists to a larger fund-raising team organized by the Republican National...
President Bush's decision last month to make Nevada's Yucca Mountain the burial site for 77,000 tons of nuclear reactor waste may have seemed a good idea to the residents of 49 of the United States. But the state of Nevada is about to launch a $5 million media campaign designed to block the nuclear garbage dump. The state's powerful U.S. Senator, Democrat Harry Reid, has recruited two former White House chiefs of staff--John Podesta, who served under Bill Clinton, and Kenneth Duberstein, of the Reagan White House, to lobby Congress. Show-biz stars like Christie...
...staff for former President George Bush, and onetime vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro to lobby for the nuclear industry, which is desperate for the burial site and has pumped $29 million in soft money into the national political parties over the past 10 years. The Nuclear Energy Institute, representing reactor operators and manufacturers, has been flying in about 90 legislators and their aides each year for the past 10 years for tours of the site, followed by nights out at the casinos in nearby Las Vegas. Congress may begin debate on Yucca's fate by late summer, but one thing...
...criticized as a prime example of Washington's salesman culture. A TIME investigation reveals just how excessive it was: at tables sold for $25,000 apiece were oilmen seeking to lift U.S. embargoes against Iran and Libya; nuclear-plant owners looking for government backing of a burial ground for reactor waste; and coal, refinery and utility executives out to ease pollution standards. In addition to writing the kind of huge soft-money checks that the reform bill would outlaw, energy firms lent about 20 of their officials and lobbyists to a larger fund-raising team organized by the Republican National...
...Tehran--and Russia says it needs proof of Iran's nuclear ambitions before it will consider stopping. But U.S. intelligence officials still fear that sharing the information could reveal too much about U.S. intelligence-gathering capabilities. Meanwhile, the Izhora factory in St. Petersburg, Russia, just completed a 317-ton reactor component bound for Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, the first one to be delivered under a 1995 pact worth $800 million...