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...commission might infringe upon a citizen's legitimate right to privacy in banking matters. Some critics in Congress charge that the commission's definition of laundering is too broad and could cast suspicion over large cash-banking transactions of all kinds. Arthur Brill, a commission staffer, dismisses those fears. He claims, "You have nothing to be concerned about if you're not taking shopping bags full of money to the counter...
...seen by some as an implicit rebuke to the Defense Intelligence Agency, which leaked its own report critical of the State Department for not paying enough heed to DIA reports about potential terrorist activity. "We did not mean to come down on the State Department side," said a committee staffer, but, he added, "DIA, by leaking the report, did not help the debate...
...library staff in general feels we have gotten second shrift. We are put under pressure to keep growing, but given no place to put the stuff," said the staffer. "They have no real concept that the library is a growing thing...
...Committee, compared Ferraro to the most successful politician in the U.S. today: "She handled it exactly like Ronald Reagan. Like him, she showed tremendous inner peace." Democratic strategists, jubilant over her performance, intend to encourage Ferraro to take on the heaviest campaign schedule she can manage. Says one Mondale staffer: "If you've got her, flaunt...
...Sunday, Aug. 12, however, Ferraro announced at an airport press conference in Washington that her husband had refused to release his tax returns. Surprisingly, she had not told anyone in the Mondale camp beforehand. Campaign Chairman Jim Johnson got the news from a staffer at about 10 a.m.; he immediately phoned Mondale, who could scarcely believe what he heard. One of his aides recalls the mood in the Mondale entourage as being "furious, just furious." The presidential nominee and his advisers, however, agreed that they would only urge, not demand, Ferraro to speed up the release...