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...starkly modern three-room suite in Atlanta's Omni Hotel?a posh setting that contrasted with the humble accommodations, often at the homes of supporters, that he had used as he began his once lonely campaign 22 months ago. At 11 p.m. he placed a call to Massachusetts' Congressman Tip O'Neill, who is in line to become Speaker of the House. In his soft drawl Carter said: "Tip, I feel confident now that I'm going to be elected. I just want you to know that I will be able to work with you and the members of Congress...
...that easily supportable claim. Riegle, whose tape-recorded pillow talk with an unpaid former woman staffer highlighted the campaign (TIME, Nov. 1), will succeed the retiring Philip Hart when the Senate convenes next January. For a time, the incident that surfaced in the anti-Riegle Detroit News seemed to tip the election in the direction of Republican Congressman Marvin Esch...
...figure in the case, which was first reported by the Washington Post, is Tongsun Park, a wealthy Korean rice broker renowned in Washington as a lavish entertainer and Seoul brother of lofty U.S. politicians. In December 1973 Park was co-host of a party for Democratic House Majority Leader Tip O'Neill at the George Town Club. Among the guests: Gerald Ford, who was then Vice President...
...Anchorage had stopped him as he was en route to Washington from Korea, and they copied his papers. The material included a three-page typewritten list of more than 90 legislators and federal officials, some of whom had figures with dollar signs written next to their names. The tip-off on Park may have come from CIA telephone taps and electronic bugs in South Korea-the disclosure of which may now be embarrassing to the U.S. Government. Park said the sums represented requests for campaign contributions, although some of the job holders on his list were not elected to office...
...Soviet workers, a time set aside for them to light up their favorite smokes. Older Russians usually prefer a cigarette called papirosa-a pungent blend of black, sun-cured tobacco with a hollow paper mouthpiece. Younger Russians tend to smoke a Western-style (though stronger than U.S. brands) filter tip. Despite all the evidence linking it with lung cancer, heart disease and respiratory ailments, smoking has been rising steadily in the U.S.S.R. Alarmed by this threat to the nation's health, Soviet officials recently began a tough antismoking campaign that rivals the vigorous efforts in the West...