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...used to be that prudent lobbyists would spread their contributions across both parties, which helps explain why even during their years out of power, the Republicans did at least as well as, and often better than, the incumbent Democrats. But under the G.O.P.'s new, scorched-earth policy, a lobbyist who works both sides of the aisle risks being denounced as the enemy by Republican leaders. "There are liberal Democrats in this town who are trying to destroy the revolution, and I'm not going to be their friend," declares House majority whip Tom Delay. "I'm their enemy...
Though Delay is not bashful about his agenda, the actual tactics may be more subtle, according to Don Fowler, the soft-spoken national chairman of the Democratic National Committee. "You're a lobbyist," he says. "So you call up a subcommittee chairman and ask for an appointment. They take your name and number, but the congressman's assistant tells you to call back a day later. And when you do, they tell you that you haven't been doing your part...
...accompanying letters, Unabomber gave a one-word response to questions about his motive. "The answer is simple: anger." He also chided the FBI for being "surprisingly incompetent" and denied that an April mail bomb, which killed a lobbyist for California's timber industry, had been triggered by the terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City. "We strongly deplore the kind of indiscriminate slaughter that occurred in the Oklahoma City event," read Unabomber's letter to the Times-blithely sidestepping the fact that last week's threat to blow up a passenger plane is perhaps the ultimate indiscrimination...
...officials and Sacramento, Calif. police squelched speculation thatthe Unabomberwas caught on a police videotape. The Los Angeles Times reported today that in April, police had taped bystanders in the area where timber lobbyist Gilbert Murray was killed by a bomb made by the terrorist. The man in question, who hurried away when he realized he was being photographed, bears a slight resemblance to the police sketch of the bomber, which itself is based on a brief sighting in 1987. But police now say the unidentified man appears to be about15 years older than the bomber is believed...
...Justice Department in managing local markets. Nothing short of the future of the telecommunications industry is at stake. At the moment, the betting is that Pressler's bill will succeed, at least in some form. "Like Ronald Reagan, he benefits from being underestimated," says Kenneth Duberstein, a lobbyist and former White House aide. "In the end, Larry Pressler, as usual, will produce...