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Just surgical strikes, Israel's army commanders proudly proclaimed as they showed off video images of smart bombs intersecting cross hairs. This little war against Hizballah guerrillas in Lebanon was only a high-tech blitz on a bunch of terrorists, targeting specific buildings and vehicles hiding the enemy, avoiding nasty civilian casualties. In fact, two ambulances had been hit, three power plants had been damaged, and several hundred Lebanese, most of them noncombatants, had been killed or wounded. Still, for the first seven days, Israelis applauded the offensive, and much of the world tolerated it. But even the vaunted Israeli...
...like a relic from the days of sock hops and soda shops. But Barbour and the Republicans were stirred up for good reason. The 13 million-member AFL-CIO tossed the President an early endorsement and backed it up with a special assessment of union dues to bankroll a blitz of saturation advertising, computer-assisted organizing and massive telemarketing. The enterprise amounts to an all-out war by organized labor to turn back the Republican tide of 1994. John Sweeney, the AFL-CIO's new rabble-rousing president, told TIME that he considers the effort "a matter of life...
...Massachusetts, the media blitz normally associated with last month's New Hampshire primary was larger than normal, a change McCarthy attributes to the new regional primary...
...version of the flat tax that Forbes has been touting. "That's my flat tax," Armey growled. And just in case that was not enough to get his point across, Armey made a special trip to New Hampshire last Thursday to spread the flat-tax gospel in a daylong blitz...
MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE: The Republican presidential contenders spent Monday crossing the state in a final media blitz before the first polls open at 6 am E.S.T. Tuesday. With three of the top four candidates appearing on various morning talk shows Monday morning, Bob Dole was conspicuous in his absence. Alexander accused Dole of ducking interviews: "There have been more sightings of Elvis in New Hampshire than there have been of Senator Dole," Alexander said. "We've been out here every day," Dole shot back. "I don't know what his problem is. I hope he gets over it." Tracking polls...