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- Aug. 14, 1989: Grapevine
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Aug. 14, 1989 The Hostage Agony
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- NATION, Page 30
- Grapevine
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- <p> MACK'S COMEBACK. Once a powerful aide to deposed House
- Speaker Jim Wright, John Mack has been a pariah since last May,
- when the press dredged up his conviction for stabbing and
- savagely beating a young Virginia woman in 1973. Mack has now
- opened up his own Washington lobbying firm, but business is slow
- in coming. Former Democratic Party chairman John White has been
- trying to steer work in Mack's direction, but says that so far,
- "I haven't been able to find any clients for him."
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- <p> NEW BEGINNING. In Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), the
- cigarette vendor on the corner may once have been a
- high-ranking government official. Broken in body and spirit
- after more than a decade of "re-education" in Communist prison
- camps, many former South Vietnamese bureaucrats and army
- officers have been set free in the past three years. In an
- agreement signed in Hanoi last week, more than 20,000 Vietnamese
- will soon be permitted to resettle in the U.S. The pact, says
- American negotiator Robert Funseth, "starts healing a big
- untreated wound left by the war."
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- <p> HYPERACTIVITY. House majority leader Dick Gephardt wants to
- be out front on every issue, but his frantic pace makes him
- seem unfocused. In just one fast-paced week last month, he
- called for detailed study papers on future space exploration,
- capital gains and the proposed amendment to the Constitution on
- flag burning. Sighed an exhausted aide: "He's hard on his
- staff."
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