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...think the Quayle military-service flap will detract from the lift you otherwise would have obtained from the convention...
Ever since it has been battling for funding andprestige, and it has had by its own admission aless than successful record in achieving either.As a result, the unusual flap over the Counterappointment and the concomitant exchange ofcombative statements left people close to theschool with a bad aftertaste that threatens tolinger...
...other Governor, it would have been a minor flap over the state budget. But nothing is routine anymore for Michael Dukakis, especially when it allows Republicans to snicker at his much touted Massachusetts Miracle. Last week the front runner in the Democratic presidential campaign was forced to concede that sagging tax revenues have thrown his $11.6 billion 1988 budget out of balance by more than $300 million, with additional red ink forecast for 1989. Since the Massachusetts constitution mandates a balanced budget, Dukakis must trim spending programs -- a task that should be good practice if he ever moves...
...miffed -- at the Saudis for having acted secretively to acquire the weapons and at the Israelis for their threatening reaction. Last week the State Department confirmed that U.S. Ambassador Hume Horan is being recalled from Riyadh after a tour of only six months. It was unclear whether the missile flap was involved, but the issue could hardly have been a highlight of his brief tenure. Horan's possible successor: Walter Cutler, who served in the post from 1984 until last summer...
ACTUALLY, Jackson has been subject to unusual levels of scrutiny. The 1984 hymietown flap only became news when a Washington Post reporter decided to print the remarks made off the record. That incident has appeared in virtually every Jackson profile piece this year, as has his association with Farrakhan...