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Such brinkmanship is anathema to Dole, who stayed above the fray, struggling to maintain his balance between running for President for the third time and running the Senate. As Dole shuttles--sometimes daily--between Washington and New Hampshire, the juggling act has begun to take a noticeable toll. In the Senate, Dole has made several unforced errors lately, puzzling lawmakers who have long relied on his dealmaking acumen and keen sense of timing...
Leaping into the fray last week, President Clinton told a thousand cheering supporters at a Congressional Hispanic Caucus dinner, "The issue is whether or not we're going to value the culture, the traditions of everybody and also recognize that we have a solemn obligation to let these children live up to the fullest of their God-given capabilities." But the issue does not divide purely along partisan lines. Although House Speaker Newt Gingrich and G.O.P. presidential hopefuls Richard Lugar and Patrick Buchanan back the English-only movement, G.O.P. Governor George Bush of Texas left popular bilingual programs untouched...
President Clinton recently announced his contribution to ending violent impulses in America. Jumping into the family values fray, he voiced his support for "parental responsibility" in regulating television viewing, made possible by a new techological innovation. A device called a "V chip" may now be built in to the back of the television, allowing parents to monitor programming that comes into their homes. Each program would be tagged with a violence rating; parents would simply adjust the V chip to the level of violence they would allow...
...nascent re-election team believes it has found at least one answer in the public's level of discomfort with the Republican agenda. No longer able to advance much of his own legislative program, Clinton is positioning himself as a bulwark against his opponents' excesses, an above-the-fray arbiter protecting the otherwise undefended-women, senior citizens, minorities, working families, the whole middle class-against Republican zealots...
...Monday, as anti-abortion groups got into the fray, the statistics became larger and the denials more vehement. The groups released a transcript of a 1978 hearing at which Foster was quoted as saying, "I have done a lot of amniocentesis and therapeutic abortions, probably near 700," Foster denied the statement...