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...race is on. No one wants to be left behind," says Ben Zour, senior analyst for strategic information at Eastman Kodak. The list of contenders in the research-and-development scramble reads like a Who's Who of U.S. high tech: Du Pont, IBM, 3M, Texas Instruments, NCR and GTE, among many others. AT&T is a giant in the field; its Bell Laboratories, with a research budget of some $2 billion annually, now conducts more research in optics than in its original core pursuit of electronics...
Despite the many contrasts between Du Pont and Robertson, their announcements reflected the status of the Republican Party in the last stage of the Reagan era. Conservatives who differ only marginally on most issues control the nominating process. Both Du Pont, a nuts-andbolts pragmatist, and Robertson, an ideologue preoccupied with moral issues, are trying to challenge Vice President George Bush from the right...
That may prove more difficult for Du Pont, 51. One of the heirs to the family chemical fortune, he has a Princeton engineering degree, a Harvard law diploma and an aversion to the use of his full name: Pierre Samuel du Pont IV. His squarejawed phiz recalls Nelson Rockefeller, another millionaire Republican who inched to the right but never erased his progressive image. As a member of the U.S. House for three terms (1971-77), Du Pont compiled a moderate voting record. His views began to change, he says, during his successful tenure as Governor, when he adopted a species...
...attract attention, Du Pont must distinguish himself from the better- known competition with arresting ideas. To stop the spread of narcotics, he argues, all public-school teenage students should be compelled to take drug tests. (Du Pont did not go to public school.) The present welfare system is a failure and should be largely abolished. Government should offer extensive vocational training and temporary public jobs paying 90% of the minimum wage. All agricultural subsidies must be phased out over five years, after which market forces would govern farming. Any of these proposals would detonate controversy once the campaign is fully...
While Robertson and Du Pont were making their announcements last week, Bush was back in Michigan, where he thanked supporters for overcoming challenges by Robertson and Jack Kemp last month in the first stage of the state's convoluted delegate-selection process. But the race is now entering a low- profile phase. Kemp, bumped to third place in Michigan by Robertson, is running for re-election to Congress. Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, after dropping broad hints about 1988, appears to be having second thoughts. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole has concentrated on the hectic legislative session and campaigning for colleagues...