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- <text id=91TT0489>
- <title>
- Mar. 04, 1991: Let's Change The Subject
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Mar. 04, 1991 Into Kuwait!
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 17
- Let's Change the Subject
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By David Ellis/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> Several scandal-tinged Senators have rushed to associate
- themselves with a variety of no-lose issues, many related to
- the gulf war.
- </p>
- <p> IMAGE PROBLEM
- </p>
- <p> Alan Cranston, California Democrat. Received $900,000 in
- donations from indicted S&L buccaneer Charles Keating.
- </p>
- <p> DIVERSIONARY TACTIC
- </p>
- <p> Battling cancer and planning to retire, he declared that he
- has supported every major veterans' bill for the past 12 years.
- </p>
- <p> IMAGE PROBLEM
- </p>
- <p> Alfonse D'Amato, New York Republican. Played a questionable
- role in the awarding of federal housing subsidies to friends
- and contributors.
- </p>
- <p> DIVERSIONARY TACTIC
- </p>
- <p> Rushed to Israel to condemn Scud attacks and turned up last
- week in the Soviet Union to lambaste Mikhail Gorbachev for the
- Baltic crackdown.
- </p>
- <p> IMAGE PROBLEM
- </p>
- <p> Dennis DeConcini, Arizona Democrat. Accepted $81,000 from
- Keating and was identified in Senate testimony as his most
- forceful advocate.
- </p>
- <p> DIVERSIONARY TACTIC
- </p>
- <p> Highlighted his help for Agent Orange victims. Slyly
- declared his "enormous respect for colleagues," a plea for
- collegiality in case they reprimand him.
- </p>
- <p> IMAGE PROBLEM
- </p>
- <p> Dave Durenberger, Minnesota Republican. Denounced by the
- Senate for collecting $100,000 in a book-royalty scheme.
- </p>
- <p> DIVERSIONARY TACTIC
- </p>
- <p> Issued this windy declaration on Jan. 15: "If you have an
- American flag, fly it. Proudly...We stand for principle."
- </p>
- <p> IMAGE PROBLEM
- </p>
- <p> John Glenn, Ohio Democrat. Received $234,000 from Keating.
- </p>
- <p> DIVERSIONARY TACTIC
- </p>
- <p> The World War II hero has been named to help guide military
- bills through the Senate.
- </p>
- <p> IMAGE PROBLEM
- </p>
- <p> John McCain, Arizona Republican. Received $112,000 in
- donations and $13,000 worth of vacations from Keating.
- </p>
- <p> DIVERSIONARY TACTIC
- </p>
- <p> A Vietnam POW, McCain has become a talk-show regular on war
- issues and point man on veterans' legislation.
- </p>
- <p> IMAGE PROBLEM
- </p>
- <p> Donald Riegle, Michigan Democrat. Took in $78,250 from
- Keating and initially denied his ties to the S&L owner.
- </p>
- <p> DIVERSIONARY TACTIC
- </p>
- <p> Has quietly immersed himself in, of all things, the details
- of banking-reform legislation.
- </p>
-
- </body></article>
- </text>
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