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Scrapbook Trying, As Ever, to Understand Jack Kemp Give Jack Kemp credit. He spurned Bob Dole and endorsed Steve Forbes for the Republican presidential nomination on a matter of principle. But the...
...The Italians promptly released the mastermind, Abu Abbas, but did prosecute and jail four others...
...Like his two partners, he decided not to return to prison...
...Some speculate that the Italian government was happy to see the terrorists walk-in effect, that it freed them-so as to curry favor with Arab states...
...White House to Suspend a Program for Minorities," announced the New York Times on page 1 last week...
...In the House, Lincoln Diaz-Balart of Florida fell from 78 to 8, and Sherwood Boehlert of New York from 67 to 33...
...The very man who dumped Leon Klinghoffer, a wheelchair-bound American, into the sea...
...he was ready to back Forbes...
...The moratorium will last at least three years...
...This killer, serving a 30-year term, was out on a 12-day pass for "good conduct...
...That was it for Kemp...
...Artists and intellectuals, the sycophantish and the incautious, are swallowed by Stalinism, their stories told by the composer in this posthumous 1974 memoir...
...In 1936, after he was the subject of two articles by Stalin himself attacking him, Shostakovich waited each night with his wife and infant daughter for the executioners to collect him...
...With such votes included, several Republicans who had career scores of over 50 saw their 1995 ratings tumble from the year before...
...And not just one program, "officials said," but all federal procurement programs that set aside business contracts exclusively for minority and woman-owned companies...
...It is the tale of the betrayal of the Russian people by the party as they rise to the heights of sacrifice during World War II...
...In the Senate, Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado fell from 88 to 22, Richard Shelby of Alabama from 83 to 0, and Oregon's Mark Hatfield from 63 to 17...
...Maddest of all was Newt Gingrich, who's trying to unify the party behind Dole...
...The 1995 ratings, released a couple of weeks ago, have some "union-friendly" GOP members upset at what they believe is the federation's deliberate attempt to pick votes that have almost nothing to do with traditional labor issues, as part of new president John Sweeney's emphasis on defeating as many Republicans as possible in November...
...Reading about these latest outrages makes one want to follow her example with all who furlough murderers...
...So, in fact, the president has actually now decided to suspend . . . nothing...
...Kemp's press guy, Christian Pinkston, also didn't know of Kemp's plan...
...He sent word he was sick with the flu...
...But the way he delivered his endorsement-well, that's another story...
...Setting Aside the Facts The Clinton administration's endless internal review of federal affirmative action programs won another headline trophy the other day...
...And when he went to an opera and criticized the tenor, he received a flood of threatening letters from the tenor's fans, telling him Stalin would soon take care of him...
...Bottom line: Forbes was happy, the contributors furious, Bennett miffed...
...Thanks to smart American action, the terrorists were apprehended trying to flee...
...At least," a senior adviser said, "we won't have to put Kemp in the cabinet now...
...Kemp fumed over attacks by Dole partisans in New York on Forbes's proposal for a 17 percent flat tax...
...But he was supposed to meet the next morning with big contributors ($25,000 minimum) to Empower America, the think tank where Kemp has a perch...
...the other three escaped-while on furlough...
...Grossman is the subject of a new biography from the Free Press, The Bones of Berdichev, by John and Carol Garrard...
...In 1985, a group of Palestinian gunmen hijacked the cruise ship Achille Lauro...
...Bill Bennett, also at Empower America, thought Kemp was giving a speech in Missouri...
...Russia Leaves the War, by George F Kennan...
...Life and Fate, by Vassily Grossman...
...Oddly, the Dole forces weren't too upset...
...A minor democratic political figure describes the first few years of the revolution in a 1924 volume...
...He told friends he won't meet with Kemp anymore...
...Years ago, Mrs...
...This 1960 tome, published here in the mid-1980s, is arguably the greatest Russian novel of the century...
...You'd be shy, too, if you were offering news this dishonest...
...A classic case study of American diplomacy from 1956, written before Kennan disavowed everything he ever stood for...
...The Italian government, however, demanded that they be handed over to Italy, on grounds that the ship was Italian...
...Testimony, by Dmitri Shostakovich...
...The Reading List Inge Kummant of Sewickley, Pa., has offered up a timely and valuable Reading List dedicated to the state and fate of Russia: Leaves from a Russian Diary, by Pitirim A. Sorokin...
...Quite the contrary: He has begun an elaborate and expensive effort to create bogus legal justifications-federally commissioned statistical "disparity studies"-for all the myriad other programs that look and smell like set-asides...
...Klinghoffer confided to President Reagan that, when she faced the convicted men in Italy, she spat in their faces...
...The Times story itself reports that the White House believes there is only one federal set-aside program worthy of the name-a Defense Department contracting formula the administration stopped using last October...
...Obviously, They Are for Dukakis The Republican party continues to be attacked for its use of the Willie Horton case in 1988, but the issue of granting furloughs to convicted killers will not go away...
...As a practical matter, set-asides are gone," says one senior administration official, "speaking only after being promised anonymity...
...A member's rating (from 0 to a perfect 100) is based on the dozen or so votes the AFL-CIO considers most important to unions...
...It depicts the self-defeat of the Kerensky government, the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly by the Bolsheviks, and hair-raising famine and terror...
...But authorities in Rome patiently explained that most prisoners on holiday return faithfully to their cells...
...Only one remains in prison...
...Now terrorists are getting the Horton treatment...
...Two days later, he read that Dole himself had said the flat tax would ruin New York's economy...
...When he arrived at the airport to fly with Kemp to Missouri, the pilot told him they were going to Albany instead...
...If this trend continues, next year's ratings may be based on the traditional labor issues of capital gains indexation, welfare reform, and abortion...
...On March 3, he bawled out Buffalo congressman Bill Paxon, a Kemp prot?g?, in the green room at CNN's Washington bureau, threatening to stump for Forbes in New York before the March 7 primary...
...Congressional Quarterly reported that 7 of the 12 votes used in the 1995 rating involved issues such as tax cuts, the balanced budget amendment, and Medicare...
...The escapee...
...Sweeney Agonistes Each year the AFL-CIO releases ratings of the voting records of senators and House members that purport to show how friendly each is to union interests...
...Joe Lelyveld, call your headline writers...
...The latest disappearance occurred at the end of last month...
Vol. 1 • March 1996 • No. 26
