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...minor involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal in the late 1980s, when Gates was Casey's deputy director at the agency. That misstep cost him the chance to replace Casey during the Reagan years; Bush's father named him CIA director a few years later, after the Iran-contra smoke cleared...
...Arizona, Ohio and Nevada have the more interesting smoking ban initiatives because voters will have to choose between competing proposals. Some are sponsored by organizations representing hotels, casinos and restaurants because they are less restrictive and accommodate gamblers who do smoke. Others are represented by health care interests. But to date, only Florida and Washington have approved statewide smoking bans. California rejected the measure in both...
...Smoke and mirrors, scoff the Democrats, who believe they are riding a broad and ferocious wave that all but guarantees that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California will be Speaker, and not in a squeaker: "1 Day to Victory!" says the Web page of the Democratic Congressional Committee...
...cost 8,000 Australian lives, Carlyon stood on a height known as the Windmill. From there, "you could almost sketch in what a German would have seen on the first day of the Somme," he says, hands sweeping an imaginary horizon. "The observation balloons, a great arc of gray smoke where the British were attacking on this very long front. You would have heard the artillery, seen the planes. It came alive at that moment...
...Opponents Say: Taxing cigarettes will only cause an increase in smuggling and the cigarettes will find their way into the hands of children; a smoking ban law could hurt businesses that smokers frequent and the choice to smoke cannot be legislated; there are several other uses for the settlement monies other than just health care and education programs...