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...first visit to the U.S. as President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela came calling at the White House and Capitol Hill to thank America for its help in overthrowing the South African apartheid system and to seek pledges of economic help. President Clinton responded by announcing a series of economic initiatives that could boost U.S. aid to South Africa to more than $700 million during the next three years...
Senate Republicans keep the Capitol safe for buttonholing...
This excitement was palpable last Tuesday afternoon on the sun-drenched steps of the Capitol's west front, where House minority whip Newt Gingrich assembled more than 300 Republican candidates for Congress and predicted they would soon be running the place. Posing for scores of TV cameras from stations around the country, each candidate signed a Gingrich-inspired and pollster- tested "Contract with America," intended to mark Republicans as "outsiders" itching to clean up Washington. (On the advice of pollster Frank Luntz, the word "Republican" appeared nowhere in the background of the TV shot. "The party name should...
...Gingrich and his followers disagreed, but at the same time admitted that theirs was less a governing agenda than a battle plan. They showed the Democrats what they will be up against -- in numbers and intensity -- in the fall campaign and afterward. Few of the hopefuls sweating on the Capitol steps last Tuesday resembled Bob Michel, the decent, gentle, gee-whillikers Congressman from Illinois who retires this year as House minority leader. Like Gingrich, the G.O.P. hopefuls see themselves as mujahedin and Clinton as the Great Satan. As a smiling Gingrich told Clinton during a recent White House meeting...
House Republican lawmakers and candidates paraded in front of TV cameras on Capitol Hill to sign a "Contract with America," a midterm platform that, pace Reagan, promises tax cuts and increased military spending, as well as a balanced budget. President Clinton was quick to ridicule the plan as "the same old trickle-down economics...