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...campaign. Natalie Davis, a political-science professor at Birmingham-Southern College, draws a different analogy. Says she: "At some strategic moment in the fall, he's going to have to give a sort of Checkers speech ((referring to the 1952 TV talk by Richard Nixon, rebutting slush-fund charges, that saved his vice-presidential candidacy)), and it will have to be dynamite. The great thing is that Bill Clinton is totally capable of delivering...
Squaw Valley is one of the largest ski resorts in the Lake Tahoe area, catering to all levels of skiers. It offers beginning level skiing at the top of the mountain, so if you are just starting out, you won't be left with the slush at the bottom of the mountain. While the beginner facilities are good, most of Squaw Valley's terrain is geared towards higher level skiing. Once the home of the winter Olympics, Squaw Valley offers a spectacular range of upper intermediate and advanced territory. Runs of the KT-22, Granite Chief, and Headwall lifts...
...clerk in July 1917. He so blatantly cultivated an image of pious rectitude that one wit dubbed him "that Virgin Mary in pants." In reality, Hoover was permanently on the take: he decorated his home at government expense, funneled royalties from his ghostwritten books into a private slush fund, accepted free vacations in Florida and California from toadying millionaires. Hoover had no qualms about using gossip about clandestine homosexual encounters for blackmail. Meanwhile, he was seen so often in the company of his deputy, Clyde Tolson, that stories constantly circulated that the two bachelors were lovers. (Gentry leaves unresolved...
...already admitted that Noriega was paid $320,000 by the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency for information that ranged from "incidental" to the Panamanian government's stance in the canal negotiations in 1976. The defense, however, claims that the general also had control of an $11 million slush fund from which, on Washington's behalf, he allegedly supplied the Nicaraguan contras and spied on Castro. Prosecutors are braced for any such bad-news revelations and expect the CIA, DEA and DIA to have some dirty laundry aired...
...White House has become entangled. As TIME reported earlier this month, the National Security Council used B.C.C.I. to funnel money for the Iran-contra deals, and the CIA maintained accounts in B.C.C.I. for covert operations. Moreover, investigators have told TIME that the Defense Intelligence Agency has maintained a slush-fund account with B.C.C.I., apparently to pay for clandestine activities...