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...Putin's "nyet" has left Clinton little room to maneuver. The issue is coming to a head in a presidential election season, and the GOP has made the politically popular notion of missile defense a centerpiece of its challenge to the administration on defense and foreign policy. Candidate George W. Bush has, in fact, come out in favor of a full-blown missile shield designed to neutralize the deterrent value of the Russian missile fleet along with everyone else's. In order to proceed with building the system according to the timetable he set himself, President Clinton would have...
...Trent Lott, that is. According to the Senate Majority Leader and other congressional Republican honchos, an influx of U.S. goods will help force China's communist bureaucracy to democratize, but would only strengthen the hand of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Which is why the GOP leadership is fighting to stop a bill authorizing a partial lifting of trade sanctions against Cuba from reaching the House floor. Embarrassing Lott is the fact that the measure was initiated by Washington Republican representative George Nethercutt; even more embarrassing is that despite the efforts by GOP congressional leaders to maintain the Cuba-embargo shibboleth...
...office." None of that matters anymore to the Republican kingmakers who'd been counting on him to beat Hillary all the way back to Beltway. They're left standing in the ring without a fighter, and they've got until the May 30 state GOP convention to turn Long Island's Rep. Rick Lazio into a contender...
...doesn't have his weaknesses either." Of course, name recognition - and national ink - in this race may not be a problem for long. And the young, handsome, likable congressman from suburban Long Island is a good moderate-to-conservative Republican, with none of Rudy's enemies in the state GOP and fewer problems with Republicans in upstate New York, where Giuliani was almost as much of a carpetbagger from Manhattan as Clinton is from Washington. Lazio backed Newt Gingrich, but also has a moderate record on family leave and abortion rights, which will blunt some of Clinton's attacks...
...Giuliani will likely take the weekend to think about it and another few days to tell the world, and with the state GOP convention on May 30, he doesn't have any longer than that. State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno says Rudy is definitely in. But mayoral sources tell CNN that two new hires to the Senate campaign team have been told not to quit their day jobs. So the search is on for someone to throw at Hillary Clinton, who isn't saying anything lest the media storm cloud over Rudy move her way. The choices...