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- 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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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- 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.
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- <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.
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