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WASHINGTON--Michael K. Deaver, a close associate of Ronald Reagan through most of his political life, was convicted yesterday of lying under oath to deflect allegations he used his influence with the president in his career as a lobbyist...
Unless the PLO agrees to two "eminently reasonable" conditions, to recognize the state of Israel and to "say to their people no longer to bomb food markets, schoolbuses, and and airports, they should not be included in a peace conference," argued Hyman Bookbinder, the chief Washington lobbyist of the American Jewish Congress...
Among other things, FBI agents looked into Kennedy's one-time position as a lobbyist for a liquor distiller, a record company and opticians...
...alcohol use was short but dramatic: rushed to the hospital with kidney failure the day before Ronald Reagan's second Inaugural celebration in January 1985; hospitalized for alcohol detoxification the following June, just after he resigned as White House deputy chief of staff to become a high-priced lobbyist; sent to an alcohol treatment center in Maryland for a one-month stint in October 1986, after which he became active in Alcoholics Anonymous...
...Bork battle. "Tell your Senators to resist the politicization of our court system," Reagan urged listeners. "Tell them you support the appointment of Judge Robert Bork." Administration sources said the President is even considering a televised speech to the nation to call for Bork's confirmation. Declared Washington Lobbyist Tom Korologos, one of the White House's chief strategists in the Bork drive: "If we go down, we go down fighting...