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...presidential primary season kicked off last night with conservative commentator Pat Buchanan shocking heavily favored U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Tex.) in the Louisiana Caucus...
...White House cornered the compassion market. The President's constant refrain that "we should balance the budget in a way that reflects our values" appealed to an American public that likes to think of itself as compassionate. "There is a tonal change," admits Alex Castellanos, media adviser to Phil Gramm. "You've just seen Republicans touch the hot stove of insensitivity on the budget...
...said. Last week Lamar Alexander visited a teen drug-treatment center in Hampton, New Hampshire, and talked poignantly about the need for neighborhood charity. A campaign ad for Senator Dick Lugar touts the fact that he fought against turning the federal school-lunch program into block grants. Even Gramm has modulated his granite-hearted talk about tossing people off the welfare wagon; now he says we need to feel sympathy for those riding in the cart as well for those pulling...
...Republican gala last week that he couldn't touch his beef tenderloin. If Dole is weakened by Forbes in Iowa and New Hampshire, the Powell-for-Vice-President movement is sure to escalate. But TIME has learned that the Christian right is preparing to promote a Dole-Gramm ticket instead. If there's a brokered convention, Powell could even be drafted for the top spot. But that's unlikely (the last such convention was Harding...
...death of Sgt. Donald Dugan in Bosnia on Saturday, the first American casualty in Operation Joint Endeavor, brought quick condemnations of the U.S. mission from some conservative Republicans, but failed to produce the "outrage" predicted by Rep. Gerald Solomon, chairman of the House Rules Committee. While Senator Phil Gramm, a presidential hopeful, vowed to bring the American troops home in his first act as President, Republican leaders Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole both declined to revisit the question of American presence in Bosnia. "We can't cut and run when the first tragic thing happens," said Dole, campaigning in Iowa...