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...hard to see how the all-but-unheard-of Foster could energize Buchanan's somnolent campaign, which has barely managed to get north of 1% support in the polls. She mirrors Buchanan's hard-line positions on immigration and social issues and is active in the far-right John Birch Society, which touts her as one of its speakers. Indeed, Foster's rants, calling schools "Marxist training camps," probably won't penetrate Bush's strong center-right coalition. But the pick of a black female Bircher seems fitting--the perfectly weird coda to the Reform Party's weird year...
...were the Buchananites, in the center's main hall, led by the former Nixon crony who rails against illegal immigrants, gays, affirmative action, free trade, abortion rights, interventionist foreign policy and the "judicial dictatorship in America." Buchanan's running mate: Ezola Foster, a former typing teacher and current John Birch Society member who may be the only African-American living in L.A. who supported LAPD officers Stacy Koons and Larry Powell when they were charged with violating Rodney King's civil rights by beating him to a pulp. And if that weren't disturbing enough, she looks like a cross...
...sleeping arrangements: Clinton, like Carter before him at Camp David I, is staying at the four-bedroom Aspen cottage. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is in Dogwood, Arafat is in Birch, and the delegations all dine together in Laurel. The place is so spread out that some of the participants tool around in golf carts. One Aha! revelation: in 1978, Anwar Sadat stayed in Dogwood, and Menachem Begin was in Birch. Everyone's pondering the significance of this switcheroo...
...decided to exile him for three years, so Erik sailed west to explore a land he had heard about from sailors who had been blown off course. Making his way around a desolate coast, he came upon magnificent fjords flanked by lush meadows and forests of dwarf willow and birch, with glacier-strewn mountain ranges towering in the distance. This "green land," he decided (in what might have been a clever bit of salesmanship), would be a perfect place to live. In 985 Erik returned triumphantly to Iceland and enlisted a group of followers to help him establish the first...
...pledged $10 million to the construction of a D.C. visitors' center 23. It was recently remanned 24. Civil War vets' org. 26. ID card datum 27. Miller's __ from the Bridge 28. China has tentatively agreed to lend two to the National Zoo 29. 32-Across, to Birch 30. Nullify 31. They've announced that they'll stop rewarding or fining HMO doctors 32. Fall back 33. Pokes fun at 35. Extinct kin of the kiwi 37. The People's Court figure 38. "Very funny!" 41. Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Century 43. __ out (relax) Can't wait till...