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- Apr. 24, 1989: Grapevine
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Apr. 24, 1989 The Rat Race
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 23
- Grapevine
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- <p> Standing Up Jesse? The goal of the African American Summit
- '89 is to "develop an action agenda for the next four years and
- out to the year 2000." But some of the nation's top black
- leaders, including Andrew Young, Tom Bradley and Doug Wilder,
- are leery about attending the conference, scheduled to take
- place in New Orleans this weekend. One turnoff: Jesse Jackson's
- starring role at the summit. "A lot of us don't feel like being
- preached at," says one holdout.
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- <p> But Not Hollywood. While Wilder, Virginia's Democratic
- Lieut. Governor, will skip the African American Summit, he
- won't miss making a speech to Hollywood's celebrity-studded
- Show Coalition on May 21. Wilder, who locked up the Democratic
- nomination for Governor this week, hopes to wangle donations
- from such Tinseltown liberals as Richard Dreyfuss and Donna
- Mills.
- </p>
- <p> Ailes Bails Out. Roger Ailes, the bare-knuckle media whiz
- who helped make George Bush a winner, has dropped out of
- megamillionaire Ronald Lauder's campaign for mayor of New York
- City. Ailes blames constant turf warfare with Lauder's pollster,
- Arthur Finkelstein. Some speculate that Ailes might turn his
- talents to Rudolph Giuliani's rival campaign. Asked why Lauder,
- heir to the billion-dollar Estee Lauder cosmetics fortune, is
- running a race no one expects him to win, Ailes candidly
- retorts, "There's a strong incentive to keep him in: he's a cash
- cow."
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- <p> Alms For The Pols. After one of the least edifying
- presidential races of modern times, it's not surprising that
- many Americans are loath to donate $1 of their tax money to the
- presidential-election fund listed on the 1040 form. The system,
- which began in 1973, hit a low point last year, with only 21% of
- taxpayers anteing up a buck for a total of only $33 million.
- Some Congressmen have suggested raising the checkoff donation to
- $2. An improvement in the tone of presidential politicking might
- be more of an incentive.
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