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- NATION, Page 29Grapevine
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- EXPERIENCE PAYS. Tony Coelho, who quit as House majority
- whip last spring when he was criticized for buying junk bonds,
- has landed a job as an investment banker. After considering 85
- offers, the well-connected former Congressman is to start this
- week as a managing director of the Manhattan investment firm
- Wertheim Schroder. A friend promises, "Tony won't be doing any
- lobbying."
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- HALFWAY IN FROM THE COLD. Former CIA officer Edward Lee
- Howard, who defected to the Soviet Union in 1985, is an unhappy
- convert. Howard, the only ex-CIA figure ever known to have
- defected, has been living in Moscow, but he approached a Western
- journalist in a Budapest bar recently. Deep in his cups, Howard
- complained about life in his adopted home. He gave the Westerner
- a private telephone number. When the journalist called the next
- day, a sobered Howard, who is a fugitive sought by the FBI,
- apologized and asked that the whole thing be forgotten.
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- MISSISSIPPI STILL BURNING. Led by reform-minded Governor
- Ray Mabus, Mississippi is trying mightily to distance itself
- from the darker images of its past. Last June citizens and state
- officials held a memorial service in Philadelphia for the three
- civil rights workers killed near there in 1964. But
- Mississippi's segregationist secrets keep trickling out. The
- Jackson Clarion-Ledger is publishing records of the State
- Sovereignty Commission, an official pro-segregation group that
- operated until the 1970s. The files show that the commission
- spied on one of the slain workers, Michael Schwerner,
- circulating his description and license-plate number. A judge
- has ruled that the records, including those scheduled to stay
- locked in a vault until 2027, should be made public. An appeal
- is pending.
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- QUOTE OF THE WEEK. Still on the speechmaking circuit,
- convicted felon and right-wing hero Oliver North is reaching for
- laughs by telling audiences that because of poor nutrition the
- height of Russian men has been declining. Says Ollie: "It won't
- be long before the average Soviet male is shorter than Mike
- Dukakis."
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