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...Clinton for Saddam Hussein's harassment of the Kurds. What Dole avoids is his own history of placing parochial politics before the national interest. Consider only one example: in 1990, after Saddam had gassed 5,000 Kurds and was threatening his neighbors, Dole thought first and exclusively about his farmer constituents. He was one of the few Senators who urged that Baghdad not be punished with trade sanctions for its brutality, a stance that caused his Kansas Republican colleague, Senator Nancy Kassebaum, to say she could "not believe that any [American] farmer would want to send his product...
...England. Barnard spends a lot of time on a 32,000-acre ranch with his third wife, Karin, and their son, Armin. He was intrigued by DeBakey's visit but could not comment on Yeltsin's surgery, saying, "Right now I don't follow the news ... I'm a farmer with cattle and wild game to look after. I wish him luck...
...going to have that student loan, then the farmer has to get a subsidy," Browne said...
ALLEN BOYD Democrat--Florida 2nd A conservative farmer who outspent his G.O.P. opponent 2 to 1, he plans to trim government...
...public now sees all, but knows less. We push ourselves and our cameras through the doors of barns and living rooms and coffee shops in Iowa and New Hampshire, and dozens of us capture a politician talking to a single petrified farmer or shopkeeper or housewife. And every word that candidate utters has been polled and market-tested until nothing fresh remains. We brought conventions into living rooms across America, and every trace of honest disagreement, every hint of personal eccentricity has long since been banished from the halls. We throw floodlights into the press rooms after debates...