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...Register staffer involved in preparing his paper's story has told colleagues the video was supplied by the Dukakis campaign. A reliable source says someone connected with the Dukakis campaign also gave the video to the Times. Craig Whitney, the Times's Washington bureau chief, insists that "nobody spoon-fed us the story," which he says resulted from "brilliant reporting" following up "several tips." Told about the alleged Dukakis campaign involvement, however, he says, "I just don't know if your information is correct...
...rate, the Kinnock tape opened the floodgates. Students of Robert Kennedy's rhetoric began pointing out that some of Kennedy's words -- and Hubert Humphrey's too -- had been coming out of Biden's mouth, without attribution. Mark Johnson, a Gephardt staffer, passed copies of a story containing Kennedy-Biden quotes to CBS News, which dug up tapes to confirm the point. Thus the Gephardt campaign did help marginally to keep the furor going but, despite many rumors, did not originate...
Hamberger argued that the Government got a better plant than it had bargained for. Specter would not comment on the matter; a staffer said the Senator "did nothing for Dravo that he doesn't do regularly for Pennsylvania companies, many of whom are not contributors." Buried in the 97-page bill, Specter's measure was approved with little fuss, and it later became part of last year's $290 billion defense appropriation. Congress added a dash of austerity: a $10 million cap was put on the amount Dravo could be reimbursed...
...eight-term Congresswoman, Schroeder, unlike Ferraro, never significantly penetrated the House leadership. Says one staffer: "She was close in but never inside." Some House members regard her as a bit of a flake. She signs her congressional mail with a smile symbol and is still taunted from time to time for having donned a bunny suit in China, to entertain children during Easter...
...naval officer known for his lack of political savvy making a crucial political judgment call; the strict by-the-book staff man reborn as a renegade who followed his own lights in deciding what Reagan should and should not know. "It doesn't make any sense," said a committee staffer. "This man wants you to believe that he risked the entire presidency on a set of decisions he thought were either too controversial or too unimportant to belabor the President with." Senate Panel Chairman Daniel Inouye called Poindexter's testimony "incredible, mind boggling, chilling...