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USA Today leads with a compendium of Y2K alarms from aviation bigwigs, congressional reports, and the CIA.
Nora and Eugene Lum, a Hawaiian couple, raised tons of money from Asian-Americans for the Democratic Party, befriended Ron Brown and other party bigwigs, used these political ties to buy an Oklahoma gas company, and earned a $9 million profit on the deal without lifting a finger.
Francisco Labastida, a seasoned politician favored by party bigwigs, clobbered his nearest competitor, Roberto Madrazo, the maverick governor of the Tobasco region.
A decade younger than King and substantially more aggressive, he regularly dismissed the advice of bigwigs like King and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Roy Wilkins and Thurgood Marshall, pursuing a course far more radical than theirs in the deep South.