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...Castro had held a U.S. citizen this long, the Marine Corps flag would be flying over the rubble that once was Havana." DON BARKER Nashville, Tenn...
Patronage, of course, is nothing new to politics or to the TVA. "There's always been favoritism and cronyism, just not as extreme as now," says Stephen Smith, who heads a TVA watchdog group in Knoxville, Tenn. And no one has accused the Vice President of handing out political favors directly--simply of putting in place people who could do it for him. Yet the enrichment of his friends raises questions about the reformist image that Gore is trying to project as he grabs for the political high ground in his nascent campaign for the presidency against George W. Bush...
...interest-loan program, did much to boost local companies. But Hayes, watchdog Smith contends, was put in the agency by Gore mainly "as a placeholder until he popped up the other side, once Gore needed some real fund raising." An earthy, onetime insurance man from Sideview, Tenn., Hayes mounted his 1962 pickup and drove Gore from fish fry to cattle show during his first congressional race, 24 years ago. Many years later, the business people who received TVA loans on his watch became natural sources of campaign cash. "I never called one of them," says Hayes. But he didn...
...probably think murder is something to be ashamed of. But you weren't part of the crowd that gathered after the lynching in 1915 of Thomas Brooks in Fayette County, Tenn. "Hundreds of Kodaks clicked all morning at the scene," an observer wrote later in the Crisis, the publication of the N.A.A.C.P. "People in automobiles and carriages came from miles around to view the corpse dangling from the end of a rope. Picture-card photographers installed a portable printing press at the bridge...
...train's rhythm, starting awake briefly now and then to the thump of new passengers' gear being stowed and beds being made up. At dawn, after 10 stops, most of which we had slept through, we woke to peer down at the muddy train yard at Memphis, Tenn., where an engine problem kept us longer than scheduled. The lyrics of the Steve Goodman song ran through my head: "Changin' trains in Memphis, Tennessee, halfway home, we'll be there by morning, through the Mississippi darkness rollin' down...