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Apart from its covert schemes, the FBI's new interest in political corruption has concentrated on at least one other U.S. Senator: Nevada Democrat Howard W. Cannon. A court-authorized FBI wiretap on the telephone of Allen F. Dorfman, a former Teamster consultant who had long maintained influence over the huge pension funds of the various Teamster unions centered in Chicago, led agents to question whether Dorfman might have enticed Cannon into shaping a bill deregulating the trucking industry into a form more acceptable to the Teamsters. As chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, Cannon was a key figure...
Squaw Valley: the very name was enough to unhinge the venerable geezers In the international Olympic movement 20 years ago. It simultaneously evoked the worst of California and the wild West, the depravity of Tinseltown and the dangers of the untamed frontier. When the remote resort in the Sierra Nevada was chosen as host of the 1960 Winter Games, one French official fretted: "How are we going to put our young men and women to bed at an early hour if there's a chorus line and Frankie Sinatra singing across the road...
...cord of firewood stacked in a garage is a comforting source of emergency heat for buz zards and supply interruptions. When a 32-mile stretch of Virginia's Skyline Drive was opened up to wood collectors by the National Park Service last October, hundreds flocked in every weekend. In Nevada, U.S. Forest Service wood collection permits that once were free now cost $3.50; in California, they go for as much as $20. As one sturdy New Jersey wood scrounger put it, "Every log burned is a lump of caviar extracted from the mouth of an Arab...
Unfortunately, Utah and Nevada generally defeat such attempts. As I left town, the land changed from low foothill country of Colorado. Watered hillocks gave way to the terrifying, barren and twisted land that sees less than seven inches of rain a year. The road, no longer flanked by fences and farms, cannot remain a symbol of man's secure hold on his own turf. It seems instead an imposition, almost an irrelevance. As I passed the turnoff to Salt Lake other motorists evaporated. I was left all alone on a superhighway, seeing five cars in half an hour...
While Sears is Reagan's top adviser on strategy, his campaign chairman is one of the Senate's ablest conservatives, Nevada's Paul Laxalt. Last week Reagan named as Laxalt's top assistant another prominent conservative, New York Congressman Jack Kemp, the former Buffalo Bills quarterback who made a name for himself politically in 1977 by advocating a 30% cut in federal tax rates...