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...count 'em) G.O.P. presidential wannabes bundled off to New Hampshire to strut their stuff at a fund raiser. Led by a schmoozy Bob Dole ("I'm a little more realistic, a little more relaxed"), the group, which included Texas Senator Phil Gramm, former Education Secretary Lamar Alexander, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, California Congressman Robert Dornan, Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan, Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, former Labor Secretary Lynn Martin and ex-State Department official Alan Keyes, took turns bashing Bill Clinton and trying to distinguish themselves from one another...
...Phil Gramm (R-Texas) is currently the only declared Republican candidate. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.), former Gov. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Sen. Richard Lugar(R-Ind.), Rep. Robert Dornan (R-Cal.), commentatorPatrick J. Buchanan, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.)and former Labor Secretary Lynn Martin will alsolikely vie for the nomination...
...directs his new spies. The White House has appointed an independent commission, headed by former Defense Secretary Les Aspin, to produce a report by March 1996 on future directions for the entire U.S. intelligence community. The House Intelligence Committee is preparing a similar report, while Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Arlen Specter announced he is drafting legislation to reorganize and cut overlap in intelligence collection. Carns promised last week that the operation ``will be leaner, but at the same time we will do more of the more important things...
...sixth and final segment of the GOP's anti-crime package replaces crime prevention programs and funds tied to localities increasing their police force -- two key components of the 1994 anti-crime law -- with a flexible block grant. But the measure faces an uphill fight in the Senate. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said that the Senate would have to come up with a single unified piece of crime legislation, rather than six separate ones, a process that will take at least a month. White House officials, meanwhile, made it clear that they were relishing the thought of Clinton vetoing...
...decide to forgo the race. ``It's the incredible shrinking field,'' says William Kristol, a top Republican strategist. ``Others could still jump in, but we probably know who the candidates are.'' Namely: Dole, Texas Senator Phil Gramm, former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander, former Vice President Dan Quayle, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, and possibly Indiana Senator Richard Lugar and one or two G.O.P. Governors. The wild card: Colin Powell, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs...