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When it became clear that other Republicans, already bruised by the backlash to the perceived antienvironmental bias of their party, were unwilling to help him, Murkowski shifted his strategy. As Congress tried to adjourn, he vowed to hold up an omnibus parks bill that would, among many other provisions, protect Sterling Forest in the Northeast and provide funding for San Francisco's Presidio, a new national park, unless the Administration agreed to supply cheap timber for KPC's sawmills. He failed, settling for an agreement that would provide timber to the mills at market prices for a two-year transition...
...tubes are tobacco delivery systems. Caught in a vice between the pressures of the market and those of the law, Graffix faces some very sticky questions: How should it respond to the fact that it helps customers get high? Should it push for legalization? Might political activism provoke a backlash that drives it out of business...
...Executive actions--each one ensuring press attention--so Clinton's acceptance speech this week will lay out some 30 policies (like taking handguns away from men convicted of spousal abuse) to be rolled out between now and November. Morris believes Clinton will win, but he also thinks a backlash will follow again and that 1998 will be another disastrous year for Democrats...
...Republicans may have outsmarted themselves. By trying so hard to tailor their convention for TV, they drained it of most of the qualities--the old-fashioned theatrics, the contentious egos--that attracted viewers and journalists in the first place. Clinton aides are worried that they may suffer from the backlash. "It's just our luck that they went first," said a White House official who fears that "the networks will avenge themselves on the Democrats." To juice up their TV show, the Democrats are planning "more substantive presentations," a Clinton aide says. Will the last viewer turn out the lights...
...along. The positions Lebed has been given are purely advisory, and he could be dismissed from them at any time. The Yeltsin government, a Russian politician says, "might well start thinking in terms of cutting Lebed down to size." To dismiss him out of hand would be inviting a backlash from Lebed's nationalist backers, but he will probably be kept focused on the tough tasks of fighting organized crime and corruption and reforming the hard-pressed military. Says Chernomyrdin: "As for security and order, there will be plenty of work for everyone." Lebed's political role, which...