home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- <text id=92TT1973>
- <title>
- Sep. 07, 1992: Grapevine
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Sep. 07, 1992 The Agony of Africa
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 11
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By Janice Castro
- </p>
- <p>ALL HANDS ON BOARD!
- </p>
- <p> Now that Jim Baker has done the right thing, some familiar
- figures are falling into place in President Bush's campaign.
- Among them are attack-adman Roger Ailes, who will soon take over
- "special projects," and Craig Fuller, who is expected to reprise
- his 1988 role as chief of operations. Most urgent, though,
- Robert Mosbacher has agreed to return to his old job as chief
- G.O.P. fund raiser. Funds are running perilously low. With just
- nine weeks left until Election Day, the party's Victory '92
- operation, targeted to raise $46 million for state party needs,
- advertising and get-out-the-vote activities, has pulled in only
- $5 million. The Presidential Trust Fund, which supports daily
- campaign operations, is only $2 million toward its $10 million
- goal. When Baker looked at the numbers last week, he called
- Mosbacher. "Bobber," said Baker, "remember how you said that if
- I went back to the White House, you would do anything I asked?
- Well, anything is here."
- </p>
- <p>THE BODY WASN'T EVEN COLD
- </p>
- <p> The citizens of South Florida and New Orleans should get
- such attention. No sooner had Hurricane Andrew destroyed
- Homestead Air Force Base, south of Miami, than three Congressmen
- tried to grab its operations for their own districts. Robin
- Tallon of South Carolina urged the Air Force to "save money" by
- abandoning the Florida site and coming on up to Myrtle Beach,
- whose base is scheduled to close next spring. Meanwhile, Sam
- Gibbons of Tampa pitched McDill Air Force Base, and J. J. "Jake"
- Pickle of West Texas talked up the Lone Star State's Bergstrom
- Air Force Base.
- </p>
- <p>DEFINITELY NOT THE BERLIN WALL
- </p>
- <p> Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter and a passel of
- Southern California officials have been celebrating the
- completion of the first 14 miles of the 12-ft.-tall black metal
- wall along the U.S.-Mexican border. The barrier is supposed to
- keep out illegal immigrants and drug runners, but it is riddled
- with gaps. Just a mile from the Pacific Ocean, for example, a
- dry riverbed crosses the border through a gorge so popular with
- illegals that it is known as Smuggler Gulch. Because the wall
- comes to an abrupt halt jutting out over the western rim of the
- gorge, travelers continue to scurry through. Nearby, Mexican
- vendors who sell snacks to folks headed north report that the
- fence has helped their business, since it has funneled more
- customers through the inviting opening.
- </p>
- <p>SPIES WANTED
- </p>
- <p> Ever since U.S. Intelligence was caught flat-footed when
- Iraq invaded Kuwait, it has faced renewed criticism for placing
- too much emphasis on technology and too little on actual spies.
- As one spook puts it: "You can't tell what's going on in Saddam
- Hussein's head from satellite surveillance." CIA Director
- Robert Gates is now looking for a few good men and women and has
- set up a human-intelligence center to coordinate the spook
- efforts of his agency, the State Department and the military
- services.
- </p>
- <p>FORWARD SPIN
- </p>
- <p>-- TIME SAVERS
- </p>
- <p> Japan has developed a computerized vacuum cleaner that
- lets itself out of the closet and does the house, and a word
- processor that works under water. Nice, but how about a device
- that might let someone take a day off every so often?
- </p>
- <p>-- GREATEST HITS
- </p>
- <p> Bill Clinton sang Don't Be Cruel during the primaries,
- played Heartbreak Hotel on Arsenio and danced to Don't Stop at
- the convention finale. Lately he's been crooning Stand by Me as
- he greets voters along the bus tour. In November, no doubt, he
- plans to do his version of We Will Rock You.
- </p>
- <p>-- STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
- </p>
- <p> An inventor who has patented a safer, blunt-end type of
- ear-cleaning cotton swab says he got the idea from Hammer's
- flattop. Next: a feather duster that looks like Don King's do.
- </p>
- <p>CAMPAIGN QUIZ
- </p>
- <p> Q: What does George Bush have in common with the following
- presidents?
- </p>
- <p> A. Harry Truman
- </p>
- <p> B. Herbert Hoover
- </p>
- <p> C. Teddy Roosevelt
- </p>
- <p> D. James Garfield
- </p>
- <p> A:
- </p>
- <p> A. A love of horseshoes
- </p>
- <p> B. Bonefishing
- </p>
- <p> C. Jogging
- </p>
- <p> D. Being left-handed
- </p>
-
- </body></article>
- </text>
-
-