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- GRAPEVINE, Page 11
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- By JANICE CASTRO
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- If Jim Baker takes over management of the sputtering Bush
- re-election campaign, Deputy Secretary LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER will
- fill his shoes at State. Even so, President Bush is unlikely to
- nominate Eagleburger as his new Secretary of State. A former
- ambassador to Yugoslavia, Eagleburger has become a subject of
- the House Banking Committee inquiry into charges that the Reagan
- and Bush Administrations improperly allowed Iraq to use U.S.
- funds and sensitive American technology to build its war
- machine. The committee is also probing Eagleburger's actions as
- a onetime director of a Yugoslav bank that was later convicted
- of money laundering. Eagleburger has not been linked directly
- to any illegal or improper activities. But rather than endure
- the messy publicity that confirmation hearings would generate
- in the midst of the election season, Bush will probably ask
- Eagleburger to soldier on as Acting Secretary.
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- Here's the Thing: He Was Rude
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- Now that ROSS PEROT has agreed to testify next week before
- the Senate committee investigating the MIA issue, many families
- of missing veterans will tune in eagerly. They are likely to be
- disappointed. Senate sources say Perot, who has claimed to have
- evidence of live MIAS, had nothing persuasive to offer in the
- six-hour deposition he gave them in Dallas last month. Instead,
- they say, he spent most of his time complaining about his
- relationship with George Bush, calling the President a
- fair-weather friend who wouldn't return his phone calls.
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- The Terrorist Bounty Hunters
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- When it comes to blocking terrorist plots, the U.S. has
- learned, cold cash works. Since 1989, the State Department has
- run an interagency task force, called Rewards Program for
- Terrorism Information, that pays bounties for tips on attack
- plans. So far the task force, which combines the efforts of the
- National Security Agency, the FBI and CIA, Interpol and other
- agencies, has been contacted by snitches in 60 nations and has
- paid more than $2 million in bounties. Its most dramatic coup:
- a tip during the Gulf War that Saddam's agents planned to attack
- a U.S. airline installation in Bangkok. Says a State Department
- official: "We were able to prevent an attack in which probably
- hundreds of lives would have been lost." Reward: $1 million.
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- GM to GE: Japan Does It Better
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- General Motors is reviewing all contracts with its 5,000
- suppliers in search of ways to firm up quality while trimming
- as much as $4 billion, or 13%, from its $30 billion
- parts-and-supplies budget. As a result, its longtime
- relationship with GENERAL ELECTRIC is on the line. A GM supplier
- since the 1920s, GE makes 60 million tiny light bulbs every year
- for GM dashboard displays, trunks and glove compartments. Now
- GM has located a Japanese company whose light bulbs cost 20%
- more but last 40% longer, and it has challenged GE to close the
- savings gap.
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- SCORECARD
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- Bush campaign spokeswoman Torie Clarke last week
- criticized Clinton and Gore for indulging in family therapy.
- Said she: "Real men don't get on the couch." That depends, of
- course, on one's party affiliation. A Campaign Guide for Real
- Men:
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- R: Dread the couch
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- D: Dread August, when therapists are away
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- R: Brandish lifetime N.R.A. memberships
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- D: Boast about high A.D.A. ratings
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- R: Campaign at stock-car races
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- D: Take the family along on the campaign bus
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- R: Blame government for problems
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- D: Blame the rich
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- R: Go hunting
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- D: Play softball
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- R: Never eat broccoli
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- D: Have a favorite broccoli recipe
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- R: Get sick in Japan
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- D: Get sick in Mexico
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- R: Hold press conferences
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- D: Schmooze with Donahue
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- R: Prefer Sousa
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- D: Prefer Fleetwood Mac
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- R: Protect women
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- D: Elect women
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- CAMPAIGN QUIZ
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- Q: Which U.S. Presidents beat these candidates to win the
- White House?
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- A Henry Clay
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- B William Jennings Bryan
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- C Thomas Dewey
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- A:
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- A John Quincy Adams (1824), Andrew Jackson (1832) and
- Martin Van Buren (1836)
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- B William McKinley (1896 and 1900) and William Howard Taft
- (1908)
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- C Franklin D. Roosevelt (1944) and Harry Truman (1948)
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