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...political future. "The only office I am interested in is running for the presidency," the former vice president told C-SPAN today. "I'm going to enjoy Indiana, going to enjoy my family and see what happens." Quayle had set himself a Memorial Day deadline to decide on a GOP gubernatorial...
...Dornan (R-Calif.), the conservative firebrand who launched a bid for the GOP presidential nomination Thursday , isn't going to let his opposition to affirmative action get in the way of quotas. In a CNN interview today, Dornan promised to name his running mate by Christmas and that "that man or woman of course will be conservative, but will most probably be of Jewish heritage or African-American heritage." Tired of senators' frequent appearances on national tickets, the congressman also pledged to select most of his Cabinet secretaries from the House of Representatives if he wins...
Cuba has told the State Department that it might unleash anew wave of refugeesin retaliation against GOP efforts to tighten the three-decade-old U.S. embargo on the country. The Washington Post reported today that Cuba told U.S. diplomats that itsrefugee flowwould become "difficult to control" if Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) succeeds with a bill that would punishforeign companies that do business with Cuba.TIME Miami bureau chief Cathy Boothsays the Helms bill is expected to pass, but Clinton Administration officials plan to forestall a Cuban crisis by promising not to enforce it. Administration officials...
...Four GOP presidential hopefuls --Phil Gramm,Pete Wilson,Arlen Specterand Bob Dornan - have asked New York Gov. George Pataki to derail Bob Dole's attempt to keep them off the state's primary ballot. Pataki has joined most other high-ranking New York Republicans in backing Dole for president.TIME chief political correspondent Michael Kramerexplains that under New York election rules, Dole could keep other names off the ballot in certain key congressional districts, unless his opponents engage in ruinously-expensive grass-roots efforts. Dole learned this trick the hard way back in 1988, when Vice President George Bush used...
...Congress. Newt Gingrich and his colleagues, mounting an all-out attack on big government, bemoan the ineffectiveness and incompetence of government bureaucracy. At the same time--with no argument from Clinton--they strive to put ever-more-powerful weapons in the hands of the criminal justice apparatus; the GOP crime bill passed by the House would speed up the execution process and give police broader search powers. Such selective surgery on governmental powers shows that the Republican crusade isn't mostly about government's fallibility, but about confirming lawmakers' power to judge, to separate the deserving from the despised...