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...newspaper, the Manchester Union-Leader. William Loeb's daily front-page editorials sing the praises of Reagan and report in vivid terms what Loeb calls "Bushgate"--allegations made to the Watergate special prosecutors in 1974 that Bush accepted over $100,000 in illegal campaign contributions from a secret Nixon slush fund. The charges were thrown out of court. But Loeb's paper is widely read, and in past elections his support has shifted votes...
Jimmy Caragianes, strolling in the midafternoon sun down Pearl St., across the snowbanks and through the slush, is a moving center of attention. Everyone but everyone know him--drivers slow to ask if he needs a ride, passersby wave or shout...
...comic, "marching blindly to Valhalla" off a landing barge into a geyser of exploding water. A hard eye and grim taste for simile take over in a description of a dying German truck driver, "hiccuping great gouts of cherry-pink foam . . . to the accompaniment of a sound like a slush pump." Still later, Mowat sees with surreal detachment the upper body of a man falling slowly backward while his legs and trunk remain standing...
...previous mayor, Ralph J. Park, left the city's books in an exemplary mess. Park mixed into one simmering municipal slush fund the city's taxes, federal grants and special-purpose bond and note revenues. Hs financial methods have prompted an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Kucinich alleges that Park illegally spent bond revenue on general operations while the banks looked the other way and handed out money to cover the growing deficit. Park won their cooperation with business-oriented policies, including major tax cuts establishing a "free trade zone" for banks and large businesses. To keep...
Leaving the capital in the midst of an unseasonal storm that sent snowflakes swirling through Washington and dumped up to two inches of mush and slush in the Virginia and Maryland suburbs, Carter headed for the welcome 85° heat of Albuquerque for a closed meeting of Governors of nine Western states. Though the airport crowd of 1,000 was generally friendly, the placards were mixed: WASHINGTON, TIGHTEN YOUR BELT-I'M LOSING MY PANTS, WELCOME TO AMERICA'S ENERGY POLICY-JUST DON'T BREATHE (a reference to Albuquerque's air pollution problem), and TEDDY LOVES...