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...Medicaid dollars spent treating smoking-related illness involves possible monetary settlements--and legal fees--so huge that anti-tobacco litigation is now attracting the top guns of tort law. To date, five states--Florida, Minnesota, Mississippi, West Virginia and Massachusetts--have filed such suits. Maryland plans to join the fray soon, and Texas may follow. In most states, prestigious private firms have agreed to bear all costs of litigation, hoping to recoup those, and much more, from their percentage of projected billion-dollar judgments...
...Clinton with a nine percentage point lead over Dole. The survey of 826 registered voters has Clinton leading Dole 49 percent to 40, a slight drop from a February poll showing Clinton with a 52 to 39 percent lead. These figures would change significantly if Ross Perot enters the fray, tipping the balance even further in Clinton's favor. In that race, Clinton gets 46 percent, Dole 33 percent, and Perot 14 percent. The good news for Dole? A Dole-Colin Powell ticket leads 47 percent to Clinton-Gore's 45 percent. Voters also perceive Dole as doing a better...
...Michael Duffy reports from Washington that Kemp's announcement, coming a day after Dole swept all eight Junior Tuesday primaries, has pundits shaking their heads. Says Duffy: "Jack Kemp's extreme sense of bad timing lives on." In an interview with CNN, Kemp said he was prompted into the fray after the Dole campaign began attacking Forbes' economic proposals, which Kemp said were very close to Dole's own.Congress Passes Helms-Burton
Disgust with the tenor of the campaign in Iowa drove many voters toward Alexander, who said he was "sticking to the high road" and remaining above the fray...
...make a very strong showing in the caucuses. SaysTIME Managing Editor Walter Isaacson, "The key thing that characterizes Alexander's campaign is that he's been spending most of his time in a small plane making hops throughout Iowa. He's making the case that he is above the fray and is not the candidate of negative ads, a la Steve Forbes...