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In Dubious Battle for a Boondoggle

About 4 pages (1,113 words)

The Washington Post, January 13th, 1992

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) has put herself in the dubious position of defending a boondoggle of the first order. In a highly public tongue-lashing of Bush administration officials, Holmes has accused them of sabotaging plans for the International Culture and Trade Center (ICTC), a highly controversial, $800 million federal office complex being built downtown. As Norton sees it, these officials' actions - supposedly in scaling back plans for an international trade pavilion in the ICTC - threaten the project. Villains, Norton called the officials. Their crime, it seems, is a proposal to...

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