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...reports, Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke has announced his intention to resign his post early next year. Says TIME's Mark Thompson: "He's leaving on a high note, and frankly, he's leaving before we run into any real trouble keeping the peace." In other developments, Tony Blankley, press secretary to Newt Gingrich, is going to be considerably busier at home now that his wife, Linda Davis, an Army reserve captain, has been called to active duty as part of the Bosnia peacekeeping force. In Sarajevo, American military officials report that the Bosnian Serb military is beginning...
...Tony Blankley, press secretary to Newt Gingrich, is going to be considerably busier at home now that his wife, Linda Davis, an Army reserve captain, has been called to active duty as part of the Bosnia peacekeeping force. Davis and Blankeley have two small sons, eight-year-old Spencer and six-year-old Trevor. "She's going away for about a year," reports Mark Thompson. "It is not clear yet whether Davis, a military press officer, will be sent to Bosnia. First she will go to Fort Benning, and from there to Germany. This suggests that the military has reached...
...economic growth has made the rich richer but hasn't been trickling down much to the rank and file. Hence the two trends Clinton has long fretted over: stagnant middle-income wages and rising income inequality. You would think this bad news would be good news for Republicans. Tony Blankley, the spokesman for Newt Gingrich, wonders why Clinton is so determined to dwell on it. "If he is suggesting that he is politically impotent on this huge issue," Blankley has observed, "then he is opening himself up to the argument that he should hand over the presidency to someone...
...leaking to allies his latest presidential ambitions, the Speaker sought to make it appear that what worries him is a presidential run by Colin Powell, since the general is an avowed moderate who might threaten the Speaker's agenda. Of Powell's candidacy, Gingrich spokesman Tony Blankley says, "As long as the Speaker is reasonably assured that whoever the standard bearer is going to be is willing and able to carry the message of the revolution through the campaign, then he is very happy being Speaker...
Although Speaker Newt Gingrich doesn't smoke, his press secretary Tony Blankley's cigarette habit is such that Blankley has been known to light up using the tiny flames under chafing dishes at early-morning press breakfasts. For Blankley, the relaxed smoking rules signify not a smelly sort of revenge, as Democrats view it, but a return to a more civilized era, redolent of Edwardian velvet jackets. "I'm hopeful that as a society we are returning to the habits of an earlier day when good manners ruled rather than dogma," he says. Antismoking rules are unnecessary, he believes...