Word: wrighting
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...slim volume of anecdotes and fragments of speeches that has sold a modest but respectable 17,000 copies. That would mean $10,000 to most writers. But Reflections of a Public Man ($5.95) has earned its author, House Speaker Jim Wright, a princely $54,642, which is about five times the publishing industry's standard royalty. The munificent publisher is Carlos Moore, a printer in Wright's Fort Worth congressional district and one of his early supporters. As it turns out, Moore was paid $265,000 for work done during Wright's re-election campaign last year...
...Wright also earned more than $30,000 in 1986 from an investment partnership with George Mallick, another longtime supporter. Mallick was one of the principals in a project to redevelop Fort Worth's stockyards that could have received a large chunk of $30 million in federal appropriations earmarked for the area by Wright. One of Mallick's businesses paid Wright's wife Betty a $1,500 monthly consultant's fee for at least three years, and the Wrights regularly stay in a Mallick-owned apartment in Fort Worth. Wright insists his support for the project was justified. "My interest...
...thoughts set in. Officials feared the visit would enhance the prestige of a plan that Reagan has come to view as fatally flawed, and might call attention to the fact that Reagan has lost the diplomatic initiative to Arias. The White House pushed to have the invitation rescinded. But Wright held his ground, and this week Arias will deliver a pitch for his peace proposal in the halls of Congress...
...Administration's dual policy of pursuing peace while trying to secure $270 million in new funding for the contras. Last week congressional leaders tentatively agreed to a stopgap provision of some $3.5 million in nonlethal aid to hold the rebels through a cease-fire scheduled for Nov. 7. But Wright and other Congressmen have indicated that they hope those funds will eventually be used to resettle the rebels...
Reagan has made little effort to hide his disdain for the Guatemala peace accord, most recently charging that it "falls short of the safeguards" contained in an earlier proposal put forward by Reagan and Wright. The White House has interpreted Arias' visit as a snub. "How would the Costa Ricans like it if our President were to accept an invitation from their legislature, pretty much bypassing their executive branch?" observed an Administration official. Costa Rican officials based in Washington deny that Arias is intentionally insulting Reagan. In fact, shortly after Wright extended his invitation, the Costa Ricans suggested a meeting...