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...Then, just as Dole was preparing to back a token boost in the wage scale, 20 House Republicans bid him up to a full dollar. Dole suddenly seemed behind the curve, a scrooge in springtime. And then, on Thursday, five Republicans abandoned Dole when he tried (and failed) to attach a plan for medical savings accounts to a bill extending health-care benefits to employees who change jobs...
Kantor aside, no one has championed Lindner's cause more enthusiastically than Bob Dole. In recent months Dole has twice pressed for congressional action against Colombia and Costa Rica and tried unsuccessfully to attach a rider to the stalled budget bill that would place sanctions on those countries unless they pulled out of the European pact. TIME has learned that Dole has persuaded several congressional leaders to include language expressing disapproval of Colombia's and Costa Rica's deal with the European Union in the report that accompanies any final budget agreement. Dole insists that standing up for Lindner...
Deutch well knows the impact of bad information. In 1993, in his previous job as Under Secretary of Defense, he himself received bogus Russian military secrets, Pentagon sources told Time. By then the CIA had finally begun to attach caveats to the reports that contained information from the double agents, but the labels were sometimes omitted or ignored by the customer. One such report on Russian antiaircraft capabilities, which made its way to the Pentagon in 1993, clearly warned that the CIA was suspicious about the veracity of its source. But Air Force officials, who considered the report valuable...
...BEST last week when he said he was "a nightmare"to some but "a dream come true" to others. That phrase perfectly captured the polarized emotions he engenders between--and within--the races. But the image was apt for another reason as well, for Farrakhan seems somehow to attach to our unconscious. He is a powerful, mysterious figure, elusive and changeable. As blacks and whites spoke of Farrakhan and his role in the Million Man March, they often seemed to be talking about someone they saw not in person or on CNN but in a vision at night...
Hussein Kamel: Barzan is the kind of person who does not attach value to anybody. He was very harmful to the Iraqi people--imprisonments, torture, executions...