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Four GOP presidential hopefuls --Phil Gramm,Pete Wilson,Arlen Specterand Bob Dornan - have asked New York Gov. George Pataki to derail Bob Dole's attempt to keep them off the state's primary ballot. Pataki has joined most other high-ranking New York Republicans in backing Dole for president.TIME chief political correspondent Michael Kramerexplains that under New York election rules, Dole could keep other names off the ballot in certain key congressional districts, unless his opponents engage in ruinously-expensive grass-roots efforts. Dole learned this trick the hard way back in 1988, when Vice President George Bush used...
...Democrats sported "Save The Children" shirts and pins on the House floor, a strange alliance of anti-abortion Republicans and liberal Democrats tried -- and failed -- to derail the"Contract With America" welfare reform billthis morning. Soon the shouting began: "Will you get these highly paid members to sit down and shut up?" roared Rep. Sam Gibbons (D-Fla.). Other Democrats then erupted when several Republicans backed an amendment to use up to $70 billion in savings from the welfare program to fund tax cuts, rather than ease the deficit, as the "Contract With America" promises. "They're calling...
Thus the stage was set last week for one of the most bizarre confrontations in the history of American antitrust enforcement-one that could derail the strategic plans of the world's largest PC software company while raising questions about how effectively the U.S.-or any government-can control monopolies carved in silicon, software or the borderless regions of cyberspace...
Voting 238 to 192, the House passed a crime bill tonight that could derail President Clinton's plan to hire more police nationwide. The president has said that he would veto such a bill. The sixth and final segment of the GOP's anti-crime package replaces crime prevention programs and funds tied to localities increasing their police force -- two key components of the 1994 anti-crime law -- with a flexible block grant. But the measure faces an uphill fight in the Senate. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said that the Senate would have to come up with a single...
...electric cables and, most cheering of all, the reopening of Kobe's schools. Middle East: Another Bombing A Palestinian suicide bombing in the heart of Israel took the lives of 21 Israelis and wounded 64 others, sending waves of shock and fury through the country and threatening to derail the fragile peace process once and for all. Even the normally dovish Israeli President Ezer Weizman joined in the outrage, declaring that peace talks with the p.l.o. should be suspended. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin held firm, however, saying ``There is no alternative.'' Some Cabinet members talked of erecting a fence, policed...