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...like a Secret Service agent, huddling with Forbes to make hour-to-hour decisions. Reed talks by phone with Dole at least twice a day and consults his commanders by conference call. One is a hands-on operator; the other an arm's-length manager. "Bill wants to be aboard the space shuttle," says longtime Republican operative Bill Canary, who has worked closely with both men, "while Scott prefers to be at Mission Control...
WHEN STEVE FORBES GINGERLY STEPPED ABOARD HIS rented campaign bus in Council Bluffs, Iowa, one morning last week, a photographer yelled for him to stick his head out a side window and wave. Forbes, who wouldn't know a photo op even in a hail of popping flashbulbs, nudged his head out like a turtle afraid to emerge from its shell. He smiled bashfully, and a local reporter called out, "When was the last time you rode a bus?" Forbes grimaced, pulled his head back in and muttered, "I've ridden buses all my life...
Mounted at the front of the Forbes bus is a small sign that reads WELCOME ABOARD ASPHALT ONE. COMMANDER JOHN L. "JOHNNY" WILLIAMS. Next to the sign is a small bulletin board with tacked-on Polaroids of a shirt-sleeved George Bush sitting on the bus's banquette reading the newspaper. The Bush-Quayle campaign rented the 22-year-old motor coach in 1988 and 1992. The bus itself is on the tatty side ("It has 2.4 million miles on it," boasts Commander Johnny), but Forbes doesn't seem to notice. When the bus halts outside Atlantic, Iowa...
...others much worse. Clinton was buoyant, shameless, cleverly conciliatory, as he proclaimed the end of Big Government, attacked sleazy Hollywood profiteers, extolled the virtues of the family and a balanced budget. Clinton's speech was so Republican in form and function that Dole could have just welcomed him aboard the G.O.P., joked that House minority leader Dick Gephardt should be giving the response and said good night...
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE: At least five people were killed this morning when a Navy fighter jet crashed into a Nashville suburb just after taking off on a training mission. The two crew members aboard the F-14 Tomcat died, as did three civilians who were sitting in one of several houses that were set ablaze by the explosion. The twin-engine fighter was returning to Miramar Air Force near San Diego after flying to the Nashville International Airport where it was refueled. "The F-14's engine has long been underpowered and this may have contributed to this crash," notes defense...