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Though there are only 21 of them, they are being stroked, wooed and courted by all sides till they blush. They even have talks going with the various factions of the House Republican freshman class--a dialogue that California Democrat Gary Condit describes as "very enlightening to us. They're not as rigid as they're portrayed to be." As the White House negotiations broke down, Armey announced that the Republican leadership was ready to turn to Plan B. The scheme: if they couldn't cut a deal with Clinton, they would turn to the Blue Dogs to come...
...greater purchase. He aims to win in Louisiana's little-watched caucuses six days before the Iowa contest and to offset the impact of a likely Dole victory in New Hampshire on Feb. 20 with a win in Delaware four days later. The former economics professor and onetime Democrat hopes to be ahead in delegates by March 1 and "break out" with a win in conservative South Carolina on March...
DIED. MIKE SYNAR, 45, former U.S. Representative; of brain cancer; in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Synar style was anything but politics as usual. For 16 years, the Democrat served a conservative district in Oklahoma while embracing a range of liberal positions like gun control. He finally lost his seat in the 1994 G.O.P. sweep...
...confusion among Clinton aides over just how Whitewater files were transported from the Rose firm to a nearby Clinton campaign office. Hillary Clinton had requested the files be moved, Kennedy recalled, but "no one knew how the documents had gone out from Rose to the campaign." The lead Democrat on the panel, Maryland Sen. Paul Sarbanes quickly pointed out it was within Mrs. Clinton's right to ask for the documents. An agitated D'Amato was visibly unsatisfied with Kennedy's interpretations, but despite repeated prodding was unable to elicit any discrepancies. The former White House attorney's notes became...
...presidential election, when rising crime was an issue, Willie Horton became the wanted-poster child who helped elect George Bush. In 1992 Bill Clinton neutralized the Republican advantage by positioning himself as a tough-on-crime Democrat who favored the death penalty and would put 100,000 new police officers on the streets. In an interview with Time, Clinton said last week that the country has embarked on a historic change: "What's happening now across America essentially closes the door on an era that began with the murder of Kitty Genovese 30 years ago." In that milestone episode...