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<title>
June 26, 1989: Grapevine
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
June 26, 1989 Kevin Costner:The New American Hero
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 26
Grapevine
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<p> SUNUNU SNUB. New Hampshire Republican Congressman Chuck Douglas
was glad-handing the G.O.P. faithful gathered at Pease Air Force
Base to welcome President Bush back from his European trip two
weeks ago when Nancy Sununu, wife of the White House chief of
staff, refused his hand. The stiff arm had nothing to do with
politics (although Douglas licked a Sununu friend in the New
Hampshire primary). The Roman Catholic Sununus, married for 31
years, do not approve of Douglas, who just got a third divorce.
</p>
<p> PAYBACK TIME. House Republicans, pleased with ethics committee
chairman Julian Dixon's role in toppling Jim Wright, will return
the favor by ignoring the California Congressman's own ethical
lapse. Last week Dixon amended his financial-disclosure forms to
include details of the $200,000-to-$300,000 profit racked up by his
wife Betty since 1987 on a $15,000 investment in a Los Angeles
airport gift shop. Dixon says there is no connection between his
wife's lucrative deal and the ethics committee's 1986 hiring of
attorney Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., who was head of the Los Angeles
airport commission overseeing concessions when Betty Dixon got the
contract.
</p>
<p> OLD CONGRESSMEN NEVER DIE, THEY COME BACK AS LOBBYISTS. Cochran
was paid $170,000 by Dixon's committee to probe the finances of
ex-Rhode Island Congressman Fernand St. Germain, chairman of the
House banking committee. Cochran failed to nail St. Germain, but
voters did, following publicity that he had accepted thousands of
dollars' worth of meals and other freebies from the savings and
loan industry. Lo and behold, St. Germain has returned to
Washington as a lobbyist for Rhode Island S & Ls.
</p>
<p> GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN. The legacy of St. Germain thrives in
the House, thanks in part to the $5 million the S & L industry has
donated to Congressmen over the past two elections. Henry Hyde of
Illinois, who received $1,250 from the major S & L PAC, was author
of an amendment that would soften the crackdown on thrifts. Two
large recipients on the House Rules Committee who voted in favor
of sending the Hyde amendment to the floor were Butler Derrick of
South Carolina ($9,000) and James Quillen of Tennessee ($7,000).
</p>
<p> SOFT ON NORIEGA. Although association with Manuel Noriega is
cause enough for a U.S. visa to be denied, the strongman's personal
secretary and confidante, Marcela Tazon, wheedled one out of U.S.
Ambassador Arthur Davis last week to attend her son's graduation
from a Washington prep school.
</p>
<p> LAST IN, FIRST OUT. The Council of Economic Advisers' Michael
Boskin was among Bush's last -- and best -- appointments. Now
Bush's No. 1 numbers cruncher may be the first to depart -- for
the brainiest of think tanks, California's Hoover Institution.
Boskin denies a move is planned, saying, "I have not been offered
that position." The last time he said anything like that was in
November, two weeks before signing on as Bush's top economist.
</p>
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