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...tied gaffes. The far more articulate Bill Clinton is the obvious favorite in these contests. With his adoption of traditionally Republican positions such as kicking welfare recipients and immigrants while they're down, he'll easily dodge much of Dole's criticism. Hopefully, Clinton will also be able to bait the crusty ex-senator into losing his notorious temper. That could very well provide the Democrats with a soundbite (such as Dole's 1976 "Democrat wars" seething) that they can use to heap insult upon the injury that they have already inflicted on Dole's third (and thankfully, last) doomed...
...which points to the prime difficulty of offering an economic critique of the tax plan Dole finally unveiled last week: it is not really an economic program at all. The plan's true purpose is to bait enough voters with the promise of lower tax bills so as to overcome President Clinton's towering lead in the polls...
Night after night, Nigerian gangsters trolled the bars and fleshpots of Naples for reckless young Yanks. The bait: a weekend excursion to Turkey, all expenses paid, and a fat wad of walking-around cash. The job: carrying a backpack stuffed with heroin on the return flight from Istanbul to Rome...
...cover, and all gladly signed. The colonel accumulated old copies of the magazine, scouring libraries that were throwing out back issues once they had transferred them to microfilm. He wrote letters, even sometimes sent the cover subject a gift as an enticement to sign. Among those who took the bait: Pablo Picasso, Joseph R. McCarthy, Herbert Hoover, Charles de Gaulle, Chiang Kai-shek, Andy Warhol, Charlie Chaplin, Clark Gable, Albert Einstein, Joe DiMaggio, Hopalong Cassidy (actor William Boyd) and all four Marx Brothers...
Teresa L. Brown, a Lincoln resident who works as a sales clerk at the store, says she has chatted with Kaczynski. He has bought fishing gear and asks here what bait is likely to work at a particular time of year. He has occaisionally purchased candles, batteries, a flashlight and a bag to carry things back to his cabin...