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NATION, Page 24Grapevine
BACK TO BASICS. Yasser Arafat is telling aides that he may
break off talks with the U.S. and order a resumption of P.L.O.
attacks on Israeli military targets. The P.L.O. leader angrily
claims that Washington has backed out of a bargain: he made a
concession by recognizing Israel, but the U.S. has yet to
explicitly endorse the idea of a Middle East peace conference
or to assert the right of Palestinians to seek an independent
state. Arafat threatens to unveil his tougher line at a meeting
of his Fatah guerrilla organization later this month.
CAPITOL PUNISHMENT. When Senators itched to start their
Fourth of July recess without acting on a child-care bill,
majority leader George Mitchell applied some schoolmaster's
discipline. He vowed to keep them in session until midnight
Friday, a horror to those who love to flee the Capitol on
Thursday night. If they still dallied, Mitchell threatened, he
would demand a Saturday vote, eating into their break. Aware he
was not kidding, the Senators passed the bill late Thursday.
JESSE VS. JESSE. After Jesse Jackson traveled to Syria to
win the release of Navy Lieut. Robert Goodman in late 1983, he
obtained $25,000 from North Carolina businessman Marion Harris,
a Jackson campaign supporter, to settle a Damascus hotel bill.
Harris now wants his money back, and he has turned for help to
another Jesse: North Carolina's ultra-conservative Senator Jesse
Helms is pressuring the perennial Democratic presidential
aspirant to pay up.
DOUBLE AGENCIES. In 1987, when the Soviets displayed
eavesdropping bugs planted in their new Washington embassy, a
wire on one device was mysteriously marked MADE IN CANADA. A
Western intelligence source explains that Canadian agents
arranged the bug's installation to show the Soviets how closely
the U.S. and Canada cooperate in intelligence ventures. In a
similar game, Canada found Soviet bugs in a government building
in Ottawa, then replanted them in an East bloc embassy in the
same city. The idea was to sow suspicion that the Kremlin was
snooping on its allies.
SHE LED TWO LIVES. Sheila Ward was a congressional
employee. No, Sheila Ward was a campaign employee. Actually, she
was on both payrolls of Newt Gingrich, Jim Wright's accuser,
during the last quarter of 1988 -- requiring, presumably, that
she be in two places at once. Ward, who now lives one life as
Gingrich's Washington press secretary, claims that she was on
an unpaid leave from her congressional duties at the time and
that House records to the contrary are wrong. Wright was
criticized for using a congressional staffer to work on his
book, Reflections of a Public Man.