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NATION, Page 30Grapevine
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."
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."
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."