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McCain has acknowledged misjudging Keating, but the dishonor and especially the casual allegations of corruption left him more outraged than ashamed. The episode soured him on partisanship - and in some ways on the Senate. "He got screwed, and he took it personally," says Slade Gorton, a former Republican Senator from Washington State. "That's what led to the whole McCain-Feingold thing." Says New Hampshire's Bob Smith, a former Republican Senator who tangled with McCain: "He did get shafted, and he never really got over it. I think he said, I'm on my own now." The Keating ordeal...
...held hearings that generated 2,800 pages of transcripts, then summarized it all in an orderly 256-page report that met the deadline set by Ronald Reagan. Led skillfully by former Secretary of State William Rogers, the 13-member group produced a document that Washington's Republican Senator Slade Gorton predicts will become a ''model for presidential commissions for years to come.'' It is a tribute to the openness of the commission's proceedings that few of the answers about Challenger came as a surprise. But the findings did not come easily. Although NASA had generally been cooperative with...
...nation's insistence on hunting in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary around Antarctica--Greenpeace led a campaign this year to boycott goods sold by companies with a stake in Kyodo Senpaku, including Nippon Suisan Kaisha, better known as Nissui. The $4.3 billion conglomerate owns Gorton's, one of the largest suppliers of frozen seafood in the U.S. Late last month Kyodo Senpaku abruptly announced that Nissui and four other firms that held a stake in the company would donate their shares to "public interest" corporations, including the ICR. The firms involved insist that the boycott had nothing to do with...
...editor-in-chief of the University of Illinois’ Daily Illini is spending his spring break on campus, catching up on the work he missed during a month-long investigation that resulted in his dismissal by the newspaper’s board of directors last week. Acton H. Gorton, a senior majoring in communications, said in a telephone interview yesterday that “the whole investigation was sham. It was just a sham.” Gorton was suspended with pay last month along with the editor of the opinion page, Chuck J. Prochaska, for their decision...
...editor-in-chief and opinions page editor last Wednesday after the paper printed the polemical cartoons. According to a statement published by the student newspaper at the University of Illinois, the suspensions were enacted at the request of the newsroom staff because of the failure of editors Acton H. Gorton and Chuck Prochaska to consult key leaders of the paper before publishing the cartoons. The suspensions will continue pending an investigation into how the cartoons ended up in the paper. Last Wednesday, following the publication of four of the cartoons by the Salient in their Feb. 8 issue, Associate Dean...