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Clinton had promised he would never play this game. On election night 1992, the President-elect vowed from a televised stage in Little Rock, Arkansas, "to reform the political system, to reduce the influence of special interests." Last year he pledged to put an end to so-called soft money, the kind of funds he raised last week, which are unrestricted by campaign-finance laws. Rather than changing the way Washington operates, however, Clinton now works to keep the old machinery running smoothly. Headlining at Democratic fund raisers across the U.S., the President has helped bring in a record...
Samper, the candidate of the ruling Liberal Party, went on to win the election by a bare 2.2% margin over the Conservative Party's Andres Pastrana. The day after the vote, three audiotapes containing the Giraldo-Rodriguez conversations surfaced in Bogota, casting doubt on the legitimacy of Samper's victory and throwing Colombia into political turmoil. "If it is proved that the President-elect's campaign received drug-trafficking money," said Pastrana, "he should resign because his mandate would be invalid...
...President-elect take money from drug traffickers...
Haunted by that very possibility, some middle-of-the-road Republicans are trying to join forces with the Christian activists and perhaps moderate their demands. "A party big enough to elect a President is too big to agree on every single thing," insists G.O.P. chairman Haley Barbour. Because they know that the religious right can still be a red flag for a good many voters, some candidates who have its support are playing down the connection. Though several of his regional coordinators are busy forming a Minnesota chapter of the Christian Coalition, even the hard-line Quist is careful...
...largest law firm, Holland & Knight, spearheaded the drive for the ordinance. Says Baldwin: "We were very careful. We weren't screaming and yelling and alienating. That wouldn't have helped us achieve our goal." Instead, Miami Beach's gay leaders spent a year and a half working to elect supportive politicians, then consulting everyone -- even conservative clerics -- and negotiating compromises. The ordinance was worded so that it could not be repealed piecemeal, only as a whole...