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...Pete du Pont, the 1988 playbook writes itself. Right now the former Republican Governor of Delaware rates no more than an asterisk in the polls, and that only because of his name, ambition and prior public service. But last week, an hour after becoming the first major politician to announce his presidential candidacy, Du Pont set out on the familiar path of aspirants who need miracles: he was en route from Wilmington to the first skirmish sites. "I'm in Iowa and New Hampshire," he observed cheerfully, "from here to eternity...
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...
Windows were blown out at several businesses. The sidewalk in front of the Tati store was covered with glass, debris and bleeding victims, many crying out for help. Police cleared a plaza, the Place du 18 Juin, and used it as a helicopter landing pad to evacuate those with the gravest injuries...