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Comedian BILL MAHER caused a lot of static at the Radio-Television Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington. Before a crowd that ranged from Bill and Hillary Clinton to Kato Kaelin, Maher drew boos when he joked about Senator Phil Gramm deporting his Korean-American wife and said D.C. mayor Marion Barry would get drugs off the city's streets "one gram at a time." Tough room...
...Each of the three top candidates is maneuvering to thwart Wilson's prospects. Lamar Alexander, who fears that Wilson could usurp his anti-Washington, outsider mantle, reminds anyone who'll listen that Wilson pledged to finish his full term as California's Governor, "and should do just that." Phil Gramm's aides point to inconsistencies in Wilson's record--"opportunistic wafflings," says Gramm strategist Charles Black. Wilson advisers deflect such shots with blithe confidence. "Big deal," says pollster Dick Dresner. "Clinton swore he'd serve his term [as Arkansas' Governor], and no one's record is totally coherent...
...Wray that he think about "whiting out" the Ohio address on his business card if he signed with Wilson. (Wray denies the incident.) "This is the big leagues," says Dole's Dave Carney. "It's trench warfare everywhere." If "you can't have the top guys yourself," says a Gramm aide, "you want them isolated, especially from Wilson...
Affirmative action is already a hot topic on the presidential campaign trail, and it is sure to get even hotter. The trend in the G.O.P. field is running decidedly against the programs. Senator Phil Gramm and commentator Pat Buchanan call for their abolition. Lamar Alexander opposes preferences based "solely" on race. And Senate majority leader Bob Dole has commissioned congressional hearings with an eye toward major restructuring. Only Republican Senator Arlen Specter largely defends the status quo. On the Democratic side, President Clinton has ignited what amounts to a holy war within his party. Last week moderates like Senator...
...Gramm has become increasingly hazy about his position. Many who know him believe that Gramm is a libertarian conservative who wants the government off people's backs and out of their bedrooms. Therefore he is opposed to spending federal funds on abortion. But then it gets murky. Last month he said he would not use a litmus test for choosing Supreme Court Justices based on whether they would overturn Roe. He was quoted in the Boston Herald as saying, "One of the things we have to do is learn to live with the fact that there are differences of opinion...