Word: gop
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Time Warner fired Doug Morris, the head of its embattled domestic music operations, amid a campaign by GOP presidential candidate Bob Dole and others againstthe firm's distribution of rap and alternative music with violent lyrics. Michael Fuchs, recently named as chairman of Warner's worldwide music division, dismissed Morris and took over the domestic role himself. Morris' departure follows that of Fuchs' predecessor, Robert Morgado. The U.S. music division includes the Warner Bros. Records, Atlantic and Elektra labels...
...presidential hopeful Pat Buchanansaid today that the U.S. should eliminate all foreign aid funding and use the money to cut taxes on American small business. Although President Clinton has called aRepublican proposal to reduce foreign aid spendingfrom $12.7 billion to $11.8 billion next year "isolationist," Buchanan is pushing the GOP to wipe out funding entirely. "The isolationist, anti-NAFTA constituency is one of three groups Buchanan is appealing to," says TIME's Laurence Barrett, "the others being the gun control people and the social conservatives. What he is trying to do is become the main alternative to all the mainstream...
...fiscal responsibility, immediately fired back. "They can't pass a budget over a veto," White House budget chief Alice Rivlin told reporters. Clinton has already alienated congressional Democrats by compromising so much so soon.TIME's Karen Tumultysays he moved too late to have any chance at influencing the GOP. "Clinton picked the moment when he had the least leverage in the process," she says. "By the time he released his budget, the House and Senate were well into their own negotiations...
...endured throat surgery,explained away an illegal housekeeper, slumped in the polls and seen campaign contributions roll in like molasses, butPete Wilson -- a master of hardball politics-- isn't giving up. The California governor told supporters this morning that he'llofficially announce his bid for the 1996 GOP presidential nominationnext Thursday on CNN's "Larry King Live." To make his intentions clear, Wilson's campaign office in downtown Sacramento unfurled banners saying "Pete Wilson for President." The determined governor dismissed recent political gossip suggesting that he would drop the idea of running: "There have been a lot of rumors...
American servicewomen and the spouses of servicemen will no longer be able to have abortions at overseas military hospitals, thanks to legislation passed in the House today. The bill amounts to an opening salvo in theGOP drive to eliminate government funding for abortionsand narrow access to the procedure. GOP Presidential hopeful Rep. Robert Dornan, (R-Calif.) led the charge as Republicans narrowly staved off a Democratic move to drop the ban from a 1996 defense spending bill. Ten abortions had been performed at the foreign bases since President Clinton's 1993 executive order ended...