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Last week Scowcroft and Secretary of State James Baker joined Bush's lobbying campaign by phone, while G.O.P. Chairman Lee Atwater and Vice President Dan Quayle prowled for votes in the corridors and cloakrooms of the Capitol. Even Richard Nixon phoned wavering Senators to say that Sino-American relations would suffer if Bush was defeated...
...Stockton, Calif., massacre of little children was a warning to our policymakers. But Congress lacked the courage to do anything. During the year of inaction on Capitol Hill, we have seen too many other tragedies brought about by assault weapons. In Louisville an ex-employee of a printing plant went on a shooting spree with a Chinese-made semiautomatic version of the AK- 47, gunning down 21 people, killing eight and himself. Two Colorado women were murdered and several others injured by a junkie using a stolen MAC-11 semiautomatic pistol. And Congress votes itself a pay raise...
...what the diplomats are doing and saying now, though they did say that they were "sure that there must be some [diplomats] in Washington." A more interesting statement, which I eventually drew out of one of them, was that they would, in fact, be happy if Khadafy bombed the Capitol (in DC--where the main decisions are made about whether the US should get OUT OF PANAMA.). After admitting to this sentiment about the true sovereignty of nations in the face of unwanted violence, they declared that I was "not being productive" and they stalked off. I didn...
...went along only reluctantly in 1988, when Congress, fed up with Pentagon foot-dragging, designated the Defense Department as the lead agency for "detection and monitoring" of drug smuggling. Now with the Soviet threat receding and Congress calling for defense cuts, the Pentagon welcomes any new mission. Says a Capitol Hill cynic: "The military sneered at drug interdiction -- until they saw the budget crunch coming...
...President's stance is even shakier, given his campaign to cut the rate on capital gains, a measure that would mostly benefit taxpayers earning more than $200,000 a year. The President, along with probable majorities on Capitol Hill, in effect proposes to cut taxes on the wealthy while raising them on wage earners...