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...reasoned response to the same question by Time last September, when he explained that he'd settled on that time frame after consulting with former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, banker Pete Peterson and others.) Then he devoted much of the remaining time to fuming about his mistreatment aboard Air Force One. "This is petty," Gingrich allowed. "I'm going to say up front it's petty ...but I think it's human." He pumped a final bullet into his foot by admitting, "That's part of why you ended up with us sending down a tougher [stopgap spending bill...
...glad to tell [Gingrich] I'm sorry." But Clinton's press secretary squeezed more mileage out of the situation. Asked what the President could do to assuage Gingrich's hurt feelings, McCurry joked, "Maybe we can send him some of those little M&M's [served aboard Air Force One] with the Presidential seal...
Dole knew last Wednesday morning at about 9 o'clock, six hours before Powell's official announcement. The Senate majority leader was flying to New Hampshire aboard a chartered Gulfstream II to receive the endorsement of New Hampshire Governor Steve Merrill, a coup of major proportions. Merrill's conservative credentials are unquestioned; his support can help stem the far right's cry that Dole is too moderate. "That right?" said Dole, smiling thinly, when the news reached him at 35,000 ft. And then he fixed his gaze at a distant point outside the window. Lost in thought...
...lost their senses. Gene Autry predicted that such things could happen in the famous cowboy ballad Don't Fence Me In. What modern men fail to realize is that those open skies are open because they are owned and operated by the U.S. government. When activist Dick Carver climbed aboard his Caterpillar bulldozer to open a road in a national forest, he wasn't posturing for the independent Western man, he was lobbying for the cheap grazing fees charged by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service, grazing rights that in turn can be sold for several...
...frightening minutes, a man desperate over his debts to the IRS hijacked a Florida school bus with 13 disabled children aboard and threatened to blow it up. Police shot the hijacker dead--and freed the children, none of whom were seriously hurt--when the bus came to a stop outside a Miami Beach restaurant where the hijacker had worked. It turned out he was unarmed...