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- June 19, 1989: Grapevine
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- June 19, 1989 Revolt Against Communism
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 36
- Grapevine
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- <p> CROWE FLIES. Despite an offer from George Bush to extend
- him for a third two-year tour as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
- of Staff, Admiral William Crowe has decided to retire in
- September. His likely successor: JCS Vice Chairman General
- Robert Herres.
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- <p> OUR MAN IN TEGUCIGALPA. At his weekly lunch with George
- Bush last Thursday, Vice President Dan Quayle was handed an
- assignment: during a visit to Central America this week, urge
- Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Costa Rica to build
- pressure on Panama to get rid of strongman Manuel Antonio
- Noriega. With Bush and Secretary of State James Baker
- preoccupied with China, NATO and the Soviet Union, Quayle is
- becoming a familiar figure in Central America. This is his
- second visit to the region since taking office; he goes to the
- Caribbean later this month.
- </p>
- <p> HELP WANTED. No fewer than 47 candidates have said no to
- the Defense Department for the job of Under Secretary for
- Acquisition, who buys $160 billion in goods and services each
- year. A major reason: new ethics legislation that bars returning
- to the defense industry after leaving the Pentagon.
- </p>
- <p> HE'LL PASS. Former pro quarterback Jack Kemp once said that
- if he had not gone into politics, he would have liked to be
- commissioner of the National Football League. Now Secretary of
- Housing and Urban Development, Kemp wants to squash speculation
- that he is a candidate to replace retiring N.F.L. Commissioner
- Pete Rozelle. Kemp's office says the Secretary turned down an
- interview with the executive-search firm hired to find Rozelle's
- successor.
- </p>
- <p> BLOOD SPORT. Consultants are predicting a slugfest in New
- Jersey's race for Governor, which pits old-school Democrat
- James J. Florio against Republican right-winger Jim Courter. The
- G.O.P. intends to go after Florio for the patronage and
- corruption he is accused of nurturing as Camden County's
- political boss. When Courter was asked if he would charge Florio
- with corruption, incumbent Thomas Kean leaped to Courter's
- defense. "I'm sure he would never do that," Kean said, "unless
- it were true."
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