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...RAILED AT WRIGHT, PEOPLE OUTSIDE Washington were watching--especially aspiring G.O.P. politicians who shared Gingrich's view that the national party wasn't bothering to help its farm team. Gingrich was taking note of the aspirants too--often when no one else would. "When you are a candidate and you are out there struggling along in a difficult district, generally speaking, the party apparatus will not pay much attention to you," Weyrich says. "They only pay attention to the favored candidates who have a good chance...
Democrats prefer to remember the 1988 investigation of House Speaker Jim Wright, whose chief accuser was Gingrich. Then too the ethics committee dismissed nearly all complaints against Wright but asked for a special counsel to investigate the remaining one. Eventually the counsel requested and was granted the authority to look wherever he felt he needed to. More harmful disclosures ensued. Wright resigned. Calculating the prospects for Gingrich, House minority whip David Bonior of Michigan assumed his most sepulchral tones: "As time passes, the gravity of the situation will...
...place limits on the work of the special counsel, he declared, would be seen as "an attempt by the ethics committee to control the scope and direction of the investigation.'' Who said that? Gingrich did, seven years ago, when he was pushing to widen the investigation of Jim Wright...
According to police, Burden and James died because three soldiers stationed at Fort Bragg, the huge Army base adjacent to Fayetteville, decided it was a good night to commit a hate crime. Private Malcolm Wright, 21, Private Burmeister, 20, and Specialist Meadows, 21, had been drinking and nightclubbing when they allegedly drove to Campbell Terrace to harass blacks. The soldiers, members of the 82nd Airborne Division, had reportedly gone on such excursions before. This time, as Meadows waited in the car, Wright and Burmeister allegedly picked their quarry at random, accosted the couple and killed them. Meadows has been charged...
...never set foot in the States. James Smithson was a noted mineralogist who, stung by the Royal Society's refusal to publish his scientific papers, bequeathed the U.S. government £100,000 to build "an Establishment for the increase & diffusion of knowledge." Today its trove ranges from the Wright brothers' airplane to a prototype of the Apple personal computer...