Word: gop
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...while 47 percent said that the system has been good for the country. California Governor Pete Wilson, who pressed his fellow UC regents to make the decision, shrugged off as "utterly bogus"claims by critics that he is using the issue to bolster his presidential bid. Reaction from his GOP presidential rivals was mixed: while Sen. Phil Gramm applauded the move, and Sen. Bob Dole said nothing, Sen. Arlen Specter heatedly criticized Wilson for using the word "tribalism" in discussing racial preference programs. "Coded racial epithets such as 'tribalism' have no place in public debate," said Specter. "They only serve...
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, who would be the oldest president ever to assume the office if elected next year, has launched a pre-emptive strike on younger rivals who just can't resist sniping at his age. The GOP frontrunner's campaign has released a medical report that says he's in excellent shape for a man who will turn 72 Saturday -- with clear lungs and a normal heart and pulse, with good blood pressure and cholesterol kept in a normal range by medication. But is that enough? "Dole and his campaign are trying to be aggressive and proactive...
...Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, facing in record unpopularity and mired in internal crisis, on Wednesday will have to weather new congressional hearings into the 1993 federal siege in which 91 people died near Waco, Texas. TIME's Elaine Shannon reports that two GOP-dominated House committees plan to begin eight days of testimony by examining whether the ATF should have targeted the Branch Davidian compound in the first place. "It's hard to find anybody in Washington who thinks they did," she says. "The Clinton Administration cannot come out of this looking very good, since the Branch Davidians...
...spite of the best GOP efforts, Ratan adds, the hearings may provide a sense of closure that has eluded the affair so far. Still, in an event that coincides with politically-charged hearings on the federal siege at Waco, "the Republicans will be doing their best to paint a picture of an Administration that is at minimum politically inept...
Republican lawmakers unimpressed with Hanoi's efforts to account for American MIAs attacked President Clinton fornormalizing relations with Vietnam. At a House International Relations Committee hearing boycotted by Democrats, several GOP lawmakers alleged thatVietnamese officials are holding the remains of up to 400 U.S. servicemen. Assistant Secretary of State Winston Lord testified that there was no evidence to back up such a claim, and that Vietnam lacked an incentive to do so in any case. Even so, Committee Chairman Benjamin Gilman (R-N.Y.) threatened to withhold funds needed to open a U.S. embassy in Hanoi -- an option that Senate...