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...major parties. Moreover, the poll shows that if Powell were the Republican nominee, he would edge Clinton by a few percentage points. In the Republican field, Powell is preferred by 22% of G.O.P.-leaning voters, second to Dole's 43% and well ahead of Pat Buchanan and Phil Gramm, each of whom attract only 6%. If Powell were Dole's vice-presidential choice, their ticket would beat Clinton and Al Gore, while a face-off between just Clinton and Dole shows Clinton ahead...
...week of internal debate and White House leaks, President Clinton has decided to announce his plan to establish full diplomatic relations with Vietnam at a Rose Garden ceremony Tuesday. Storm coulds are already gathering, at least among Republican presidential candidates. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole and Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas have criticized Clinton for moving toward normalization; Rep. Bob Dornan (R-Calif.), who may soon withdraw from the race, on Sunday called Clinton a "triple draft dodger" and told NBC's "Meet the Press" that establishing diplomatic ties was "going to deny him a second term for sure...
...pivotal in early-primary states. He promises term limits for federal judges, a Smithsonian Institution that respects American values and a no-exceptions ban on abortion. He has warmed up his rhetoric about tax cuts to woo the supply-side supporters of Jack Kemp and attacks Dole and Gramm as government huggers who won't go far enough in cutting the budget...
...opening skirmish in what California Republican Bob Dornan promises will be Congress's "summer of life." Though apparently supported by a majority in the Senate, Foster was ultimately dragged under by the politics of the presidential campaign. Majority leader Bob Dole, fending off a play by rival Phil Gramm to curry favor with the right by staging a filibuster, deftly engineered a procedural vote under which Foster's supporters would have needed 60 votes even to debate the nomination; they fell three short, thus rejecting the nominee and robbing Gramm of all but a few minutes in the spotlight...
...abortion politics and presidential aspirations, the nomination of Dr. Henry Foster for Surgeon General died on the Senate floor. Democrats were unable to muster the 60 votes required to force a vote on the nomination, which backers said Foster would have won. Presidential aspirants Bob Dole and Phil Gramm vied to take credit for scuttling the nomination, which became particularly controversial after Foster offered differing accounts of how many abortions he had performed. President Clinton said the vote sent the "chilling message" that the G.O.P. had aligned itself with antiabortion "extremists." As for Foster, he said he was still eager...