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...disagree with your article "Job Specs for the Oval Office," in which you say that Governors are qualified to handle the presidency. Governors have no experience in foreign or military affairs. Reagan never had to worry about being attacked by Nevada. A Governor may handle the economy of his state brilliantly, but he does not have to pay for tanks, missiles and bombers. Only Senators and Congressmen deal with the many issues a President has to face...
When Roy L. Williams, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, was convicted last week in Chicago's U.S. District Court of conspiring to bribe Senator Howard W. Cannon of Nevada, he was not exactly breaking with Teamster tradition. In 1957 the union's president, David Beck, was found guilty of embezzlement, larceny and income tax evasion. Beck's successor, Jimmy Hoffa, got 13 years in 1964 for jury tampering, fraud and conspiracy. Williams, 67, had thrice before escaped federal conviction. Said Chief Government Prosecutor Douglas R. Roller after the verdict, "The message of the jury...
...congressional leaders that his proposal to shift the final 10% installment of his three-year income tax cut from next July to January had no chance of passage. In spite of that retreat, the President showed that he retains plenty of backstage clout. His friend and close Senate ally, Nevada's Paul Laxalt, led a successful drive to remove Oregon Senator Bob Packwood from chairmanship of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Packwood played a major role in helping engineer the reelection of every Republican Senator in November, thereby maintaining the G.O.P.'s eight-vote margin in the Senate...
...feasibility of the Dense Pack basing mode (see following stories). It is roughly the 30th option considered by the Air Force, which long favored the "racetrack" system supported in 1979 by President Carter. This involved shuttling 200 MX missiles on flatbed trailers among 4,600 shelters in Utah and Nevada. That $34 billion plan was buried under a barrage of environmental and political opposition, including that of Presidential Candidate Reagan...
...combination of demographics and canny marketing explains Atlantic City's success in competing with Las Vegas. The Nevada gaming mecca, situated 300 miles from the population center of its major market, Southern California, has suffered badly from the recession as tourism has dwindled. Several casinos there, including the famed Aladdin and the Dunes, are reportedly for sale, as is the Riviera, a once popular showcase for Hollywood performers...