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Last week, Harvard was graced by the presence of Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), a candidate for the Republican nomination for president. In a speech at the Kennedy School, Specter staked out a tough stance against violence. At the same time, he defended another form of violence, speaking at some length about his pro-abortion stance...
...Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), a candidate for the Republican nomination for president, took a tough stance against violence and branded the religious right a divisive influence in a speech last night in front of 175 people at the Kennedy School...
...system radically. Last week the Senate Finance Committee heard testimony on proposals for a flat income tax, with a single rate, a large personal exemption and few or no other deductions. One such plan is sponsored by House majority leader Dick Armey of Texas and another by Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, a candidate for his party's nomination for President. Another presidential hopeful, Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, last week announced his plan to abolish both the income tax and the irs in favor of a national retail-sales tax, to be collected by the states. Under his system...
Four GOP presidential hopefuls --Phil Gramm,Pete Wilson,Arlen Specterand Bob Dornan - have asked New York Gov. George Pataki to derail Bob Dole's attempt to keep them off the state's primary ballot. Pataki has joined most other high-ranking New York Republicans in backing Dole for president.TIME chief political correspondent Michael Kramerexplains that under New York election rules, Dole could keep other names off the ballot in certain key congressional districts, unless his opponents engage in ruinously-expensive grass-roots efforts. Dole learned this trick the hard way back in 1988, when Vice President George Bush used...
...Republican presidential-nomination contest received two new entrants from opposite ends of the political spectrum. Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter announced his candidacy, trumpeting his support for abortion rights and denouncing the politics of "intolerance and exclusion." And radio talk-show host Alan Keyes, decrying the "phony doctrine of separation of church and state," announced his intention to run on an uncompromising antiabortion platform...