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...recent weeks a former high-ranking Dole moneyman received the largest penalty ever connected to an illegal political contribution. On Oct. 23 a federal judge in Boston hit businessman Simon Fireman, 71, former vice chairman of Dole's campaign finance committee, with a fine of more than $1 million and six months of house arrest (in his luxury high-rise). Fireman's Massachusetts-based company, Aqua-Leisure Industries, which distributes pool toys and swimming goggles, was fined $5 million. His crime? Making $120,000 in illegal political contributions to individual candidates and the Republican National Committee, including...
...political contributions in federal races to $1,000. Fireman got around the rules by persuading employees to write checks for the individual maximum, then reimbursing them from a front company he established for that purpose in Hong Kong. Last spring when the Kansas City Star began investigating the scheme, Dole claimed to know nothing of it. "In this business, you don't know who's giving you money," he said...
...Moments after the government said last week that economic activity slowed to a 2.2% annual growth rate in the July-through-September quarter--following a 4.7% pace in the previous three months--the candidates grabbed the nearest microphone and gave wildly diverse interpretations of what the number meant. For Dole, it showed an economy teetering on disaster; for Clinton, it was a welcome business-activity downshift that would keep alive the 5 1/2-year expansion without reawakening inflation...
Hard as it may be to believe, the forced dialogue in this classroom, part of a program called Life Skills Training, may help address a stinging question posed during the 1996 presidential campaign. When Bob Dole belabored Bill Clinton over a rise in youth drug use, the numbers supported him: a University of Michigan study shows that in 1995, 16% of eighth-graders had used marijuana and 2.6% cocaine. Figures for 12th-graders were 35% and 4%; all were significant jumps over 1991 rates (though far below rates in the late 1970s...
...hope for the historical rehabilitation of the 1996 campaign? Not if the measure is drama, excitement, suspense. But suppose the two parties call off the endless Punch-and-Judy show that passes for political discourse; suppose they sit down in January and decide to grapple with entitlements, with Bob Dole playing a key role in the process (as Wendell Willkie did after 1940 in combatting America's isolationist tradition). Suppose the disclosures about campaign finances finally embarrass the two parties enough to create the climate for real reform...