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Zhao Ziyang for all of his billion constituents, seemed in the evening's lovely glow like a favorite uncle, smiling a little too much, wanting to be a bit American, talking about peace and pork chops...
...leaked. It praised some members of Congress for placing the national interest above their home-district concerns (Democratic Representatives Les Aspin of Wisconsin and Patricia Schroeder of Colorado and Republican Congressman Silvio Conte of Massachusetts). It also noted candidly that some of the best-known legislators had dipped into pork-barrel politics. Among them: Democratic Presidential Candidate Ernest Hollings and Republican Senator Strom Thurmond, both of South Carolina (for fighting to keep Fort Jackson, near Columbia, open); Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas (for preventing the closing of a Housing and Urban Development Department office in Topeka); Senate Minority Leader...
...city ever understood pork, it is Washington. One more joke about the Bay of Pigs (Hogs in Tampa Bay, get it?) and the nation's capital may gag on its own smirks. Take pity. It has been so long since anything in Washington worked with the decisiveness of the Redskins that the power fans are a little silly...
Indeed, concern for function over form is advisable. The federal gravy train is slowing down. The Reagan Administration, which is cool to mass transit, initially declared a ban on funding for new rail systems and sought to phase out operating assistance by 1985. Pork-barrel-hungry Congressmen, however, objected to both moves. With the passage of the 5?-per-gal. gasoline tax, and its one penny for mass transit, the Administration agreed to lift the ban. But Reagan did persuade Congress to whittle operating subsidies by 21%, and in this fiscal year alone won an overall $400 million...
...that one has only one life to give for one's country. There is a long-running controversy, for example, over whether the younger Pitt, when departing this life, said, "My country! How I love my country!" or "I think I could eat one of Bellamy's pork pies...