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...summoned to a secret meeting in the Capitol, where he learned he was to serve on the appropriations intelligence subcommittee. That was when he learned that the U.S. was overflying the Soviet Union with U-2 planes and preparing an invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs...
...from a clinic where she worked. Phone-call campaigns targeted McCain's broken first marriage. And a pro-Confederate flag group called Keep It Flying, founded just last week, sent out 250,000 pieces of misleading mail about the candidate's position on the flag flying above the state capitol. Both McCain and Bush ducked the issue, but the flyer said, "Of the major candidates, only George Bush has refused to call the Confederate flag a racist symbol." In a bit of payback last Saturday, McCain's camp decided to send copies of the flyer to African-Americans throughout Michigan...
...drug trade; but human rights groups assert that neither side is entirely innocent of involvement in the narcotics industry. And the reports that the U.S.-backed military is cooperating with paramilitary groups that have killed thousands of civilians won't do anything to allay the fears of legislators on Capitol Hill concerned that deepening involvement in Colombia could eventually draw the U.S. into an intractable civil war (the ghost of Vietnam was invoked more than once in Thursday's congressional hearing on the aid package). But whether or not the Colombian military is using paramilitary killers to fight a dirty...
...Whatever they may wish for, Taiwan's leaders are fully aware of the extremely limited international support for independence - they're much better off goading China and then casting themselves the victim of Big Brother in Beijing than trying to upend the international One China consensus. And over on Capitol Hill, despite the threats and posturing, the Clinton administration remains confident of passing a trade deal strongly backed by the overwhelming majority of donors to both parties. Elections are a time for talking the talk, but walking the walk is too risky for everyone involved...
...election year when politicians are more susceptible to constituent pressure. While the President can initiate the legislative aspects of the program without congressional approval, he will have to pitch the budget-straining components - like a $20 million pledge to found the Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety - to Capitol Hill...