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...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...
...Arlen Specter(R-Pa.), a moderate who supports abortion rights, launched his long-shot bid for the1996 GOP presidential nominationby warning that Republicans would squander an historic chance to control both Congress and the White House if they abandoned the political center. "Let me say this as plainly as I can," Specter, 65, said in a speech at the Lincoln Memorial. "Neither this nation, nor this party, can afford a Republican candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up by re-electing a president of the incompetent left." Is he right? In an interview...