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...this is only the beginning of Masterclass (St. Martin's Press; 330 pages; $19.95). Author Morris West (The Shoes of the Fisherman, The Clowns of God) fills his palette with informed descriptions of the cutthroat gallery world and furnishes his novel with subplots concerning financial shenanigans in Zurich, the ski slopes of St.-Moritz and a murder in Manhattan. West, a longtime connoisseur, knows about the art of the deal and the dealing...
...revelations in the press, the ban follows a seven-day investigation by Gray into Sununu's past excursions on military planes. A number of the more than 70 such trips that Sununu has taken since April 1989 appear to have been devoted mainly to personal or political pursuits -- including ski weekends in Colorado and his home state of New Hampshire. The cost to U.S. taxpayers is more than $500,000, only a fraction of which was reimbursed by Sununu, though some trips were bankrolled by ( private corporate interests in apparent violation of federal ethics laws. On the day the restriction...
...CHRISTA MCAULIFFE SABBATICAL FOUNDATION, named after the New Hampshire schoolteacher killed in the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, raises money to give teachers time off to pursue further studies. The foundation, which was organized by Sununu in 1986, holds a four-day fund- raising ski event each February at the Waterville Valley Resort in New Hampshire. For the past three years, Sununu and unidentified members of his family have flown to the event on Air Force executive jets. The Sununus in 1989 flew up on Air Force Two with Vice President Quayle. In response to written questions submitted...
...SKI MAGAZINE and its parent company, Times Mirror, invited Sununu to ski and speak at its three-day gathering in Aspen, Colo., in December 1990. As usual, Sununu classified this trip as official business and flew out on an Air Force jet. Ski magazine officials, however, say they paid for lodging, meals and ski passes for Sununu and his wife. As reported by TIME last week, Sununu's office billed a ski-industry lobbying group, the American Ski Federation, $802 for Nancy Sununu's airfare. A Sununu aide later explained that the payments by Ski and the Ski Federation were...
Apart from the apparent impropriety of some of his travel arrangements, Sununu may be involved in a conflict of interest stemming from efforts to help a major ski developer. During his first Ski magazine weekend, in Vail, Colo., in 1989, Sununu was joined by an old political associate, Philip T. Gravink, who runs the Loon Mountain ski resort in New Hampshire's White Mountain National Forest. Gravink was a contributor to Sununu's political campaigns and let Sununu and his family ski for free when Sununu was Governor. At the time of the Vail event, Gravink had an application pending...