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NATION, Page 24Grapevine
BACK TO BASICS. Yasser Arafat is telling aides that he may
break off talks with the U.S. and order a resumption of P.L.O.
attacks on Israeli military targets. The P.L.O. leader angrily
claims that Washington has backed out of a bargain: he made a
concession by recognizing Israel, but the U.S. has yet to
explicitly endorse the idea of a Middle East peace conference or
to assert the right of Palestinians to seek an independent state.
Arafat threatens to unveil his tougher line at a meeting of his
Fatah guerrilla organization later this month.
CAPITOL PUNISHMENT. When Senators itched to start their Fourth
of July recess without acting on a child-care bill, majority leader
George Mitchell applied some schoolmaster's discipline. He vowed
to keep them in session until midnight Friday, a horror to those
who love to flee the Capitol on Thursday night. If they still
dallied, Mitchell threatened, he would demand a Saturday vote,
eating into their break. Aware he was not kidding, the Senators
passed the bill late Thursday.
JESSE VS. JESSE. After Jesse Jackson traveled to Syria to win
the release of Navy Lieut. Robert Goodman in late 1983, he obtained
$25,000 from North Carolina businessman Marion Harris, a Jackson
campaign supporter, to settle a Damascus hotel bill. Harris now
wants his money back, and he has turned for help to another Jesse:
North Carolina's ultra-conservative Senator Jesse Helms is
pressuring the perennial Democratic presidential aspirant to pay
up.
DOUBLE AGENCIES. In 1987, when the Soviets displayed
eavesdropping bugs planted in their new Washington embassy, a wire
on one device was mysteriously marked MADE IN CANADA. A Western
intelligence source explains that Canadian agents arranged the
bug's installation to show the Soviets how closely the U.S. and
Canada cooperate in intelligence ventures. In a similar game,
Canada found Soviet bugs in a government building in Ottawa, then
replanted them in an East bloc embassy in the same city. The idea
was to sow suspicion that the Kremlin was snooping on its allies.
SHE LED TWO LIVES. Sheila Ward was a congressional employee.
No, Sheila Ward was a campaign employee. Actually, she was on both
payrolls of Newt Gingrich, Jim Wright's accuser, during the last
quarter of 1988 -- requiring, presumably, that she be in two places
at once. Ward, who now lives one life as Gingrich's Washington
press secretary, claims that she was on an unpaid leave from her
congressional duties at the time and that House records to the
contrary are wrong. Wright was criticized for using a congressional
staffer to work on his book, Reflections of a Public Man.