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...pursuit of his ambitions, Saddam obviously knows how to make political use of oil profits. He keeps a monthly $150 million slush fund at his disposal for dispensing patronage and buying influence. One recipient of his financial support: the Palestine Liberation Organization, whose leader, Yasser Arafat, was in Baghdad last week attempting to mediate...
Whatever he's done in the last two months has failed. Trying to stay high and dry above ths slush lost him Iowa. Descending into it has been an excursion into ethnic cracks and racial slurs. Sixty-nine year old Reagan insists that he's not tired but his actions belie those claims...
Bush's campaign, Loeb charged that Bush's victory in Iowa had "all the smell of a CIA covert operation." Loeb also played up a charge rehashed in the Los Angeles Times that Bush had not properly reported a contribution of $106,000 from a Nixon slush fund for his unsuccessful Senate campaign in Texas in 1970. DIRTY, DIRTY, DIRTY headlined the Union Leader. "I am clean, clean, clean," insisted Bush. In a rare display of anger, he asked, "What the hell are they raising that for now?" He claims he reported the contribution in compliance with...
...Ethel, because we've been standing here freezing for two hours. Thus ran the mood after the opening pieties of this somewhat dreamily organized chilblain derby, when those in the audience who had not thoughtfully arranged to travel by hot-air balloon had to foot it through the slush for the three miles back to town. Eight marchers were treated at the hospital for frostbite. The bus system had broken down earlier in the week because of a labor dispute, but now, after several days of practice, it was breaking down spontaneously, without need of a labor dispute...
...ever to be free?" That plaintive question was asked two weeks ago by Treasury Secretary G. William Miller as the Senate Banking Committee debated the appointment of a special prosecutor to look into charges of foreign bribes and Defense Department slush funds while he was chairman of Textron Inc. Answered California Senator Alan Cranston sternly: "The lingering doubt remains, from which you may never be free, that perhaps you didn't really want to know or you would have ordered an investigation." Two years after the allegations against Miller first surfaced, they continue to hound...