Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...careful strategy all laid out when they tried to soften the G.O.P.'s hard-line abortion stance. But a series of leaks and rebukes prompted Dole to dilute his own effort. Likewise a small tantrum by Gingrich was enough to stop Dole from moving toward the center on the assault-weapons ban. His repeated reversals left all sides suspicious of both his convictions and his judgment...
...fact, when things look easy, he almost seems to look for ways to make them harder, move to where he's more comfortable. Instead of spending his summer telling voters why he wants to be President, he lit bonfires over abortion, tobacco, assault weapons, barked at American icons like Katie Couric and Dr. C. Everett Koop, and advocated reopening Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House one day after a bomb went off in Atlanta. He has stuck with a vow of silence to keep from getting in trouble, uncharacteristically refusing to answer reporters' campaign-trail questions...
...decision to send troops to Bosnia. But when he went even further and decided to lead the fight for Clinton, they nearly revolted. At a private meeting, the G.O.P. Senators argued the mission was dangerous for the G.I.s and political folly for Republicans. Dole listened quietly while the assault continued for an hour, and though he would win over only 28 Republicans in the end, Dole was unfazed, even heartened, by the steep uphill fight. "Yup," he said to a mystified McCain as the two men left the meeting. "We're making progress." He knew the yelling had been cathartic...
...across from the convention center. Just in case, they are also installing metal detectors. Lesser squabbles are swirling around protests by individuals. When a billboard company refused to rent space to Brian Monaghan, a local Democratic attorney, for a sign reading "Republicans: Protecting our children's right to own assault weapons", Monaghan managed to come up with an acceptable alternative: "Republicans: Protecting individual rights from the moment of conception ... until birth." Maybe they didn't get it. One way or another, as tempers heat up, Rachel Shein's ice cream shop hopes to cool them down with some new flavors...
WASHINGTON: U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno released unexpected statistics showing that young people are committing fewer violent crimes for the first time in ten years. Last year, for every 100,000 juveniles, 511.9 were arrested for murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault or other violent crimes. For the previous year, the figure per 100,000 was 527.4. The 2.9 percent drop is the first decline since 1987 in the combined rate for these felonies. Murder statistics have also fallen among 10-to-17-year-olds for the second consecutive year, and are now 22.8 percent below the 1993 level. Despite...