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THEY STREAMED INTO THE RESORT HOtel lobby Friday night, the best and the brightest of the new revolution, fatigued and untanned, still in suits rumpled from the Beltway fray. Here at the entrance to Miami's Doral Golf Resort and Spa was David Horowitz, leftist turned conservative author. Behind him strode movement martyr Judge Robert Bork, so foully denied a Supreme Court seat. And here was Richard Viguerie, political direct-mail pioneer and prodigal son. For the preceding few years on New Year's, Viguerie had partied with the enemy, surrounded by moderates and liberals in Hilton Head, South Carolina...
Although House Majority Leader Dick Armey has said that getting public support for the Bosnia mission would be "like pulling teeth through the back of your head," opposition within the Beltway may be softening. On Capitol Hill Wednesday, even Strom Thurmond, the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, hedged his criticism: "I support the North Atlantic alliance and believe that the United States should remain engaged in and show leadership in NATO." Elsewhere, the American Jewish Congress today joined an increasing number of voices supporting the U.S. troop deployment. "It looks increasingly likely that Clinton will get congressional...
...real sign from the right came that night after dinner. Newt Gingrich told his staff he was attending a function in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Afterward he slipped onto the Beltway to McLean, where he arrived at Powell's front door sometime after eight. If Powell wanted some protection on his right flank, Gingrich would be essential. For weeks the Speaker had made positive if guarded comments about the general. But he had not done anything to actively push him into the race...
...temporary debt-limit extension that the Republican Congress has put before him, and that requires him to approve their budget proposals. This is macho, partisan face-off time. If you're a Perot voter, or even if you're not, there could hardly be a better example of Beltway fecklessness...
Under the most optimistic assumptions, a comprehensive agreement could be reached by the middle of this week. But by then a Balkans battle inside the Beltway may erupt. House Republicans expect to force a vote this week on a measure that would bar any spending for the 20,000 American troops that would be the linchpin of the NATO implementation force. (That force would now include Russian soldiers, since Moscow agreed last week to put them essentially under NATO control.) "We're afraid Clinton will cut some kind of deal and our troops in Germany could be down there...