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...Committee, urged Clinton to postpone a vote on GATT. If Clinton agrees, Helms said he would make sure that White House foreign policy matters during the next Congress are "considered fully and fairly." Future Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole also expressed reservations. Veep Al Gore today pushed some key GOP hot buttons, saying that a delay would be "a death sentence for the biggest tax cut in the history of the world" referring to GATT provisions that will reduce tariffs worldwide. And, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, in an exclusive interview with TIME editors, called the delaying tactics "outrageous" and said...
TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompson, who canvassed military officials today, says Army officials and GOP legislators may be teaming up against the Clinton Administration. Neither the Army nor key GOP leaders, Thompson says, want U.S. forces sent to what they see as budget-eating,"rinky-dink" missions to hot spots like Haiti. "The military now knows it has a sympathetic ear in Congress, so there's a tacit alliance already taking shape," he says. And the next Haiti? "It's going to be much, much tougher."Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...
President Clinton -- immediately drawing fire from remaining liberal allies -- last night said he wouldn't rule out working with thenew Republican-controlled Congresson a constitutional amendment supporting school prayer. Asked about the GOP proposal, Clinton said, "I want to reserve judgment. I want to see the specifics. I'll be glad to discuss it with (the Republicans). . . . I certainly wouldn't rule it out. It depends on what it says." White House advisers downplayed the statement, but it was the first time Clinton ever signaled willingness to play ball on the issue, and GOP leaders, including future House Speaker Newt...
Gubernatorial races in Maryland and Alaska that had been hung up on absentee ballot counts arelikely Democratic victories. In Maryland, where the GOP is outnumbered two-to-one, Democrat Parris Glendening apparently beat Republican Ellen Sauerbrey by 5,405 votes with all but about 500 overseas votes tallied. (His lieutenant governor will be Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the late Robert Kennedy's oldest daughter.) In Alaska, Democrat Tony Knowles led Republican Jim Campbell by just 77 votes -- an edge so thin state officials may demand a recount. But 1994's Squeaker of the Year may go to a Connecticut House race...
With Israelis already concerned about Republican threats to slash foreign aid, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin today downplayed fears that GOP firebrand Sen. Jesse Helms -- in 60 days chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- might go after the historic U.S.-Israel relationship. The source: Israel's biggest newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, today cited a Helms staff trial balloon proposing that the U.S. forgive Israel's debt in exchange for a huge cut in its $1.2 billion annual economic aid package. Rabin -- on his way to the U.S. for a week -- told reporters that he'll meet with decision-makers...