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Vento hopes the Fourth District, which hasn't elected a G.O.P. Congressman since 1948, will stick with tradition and give him an 11th term this fall. The former science teacher has been at the forefront of environmental issues, favoring taxes on high-level energy users, stronger clean-water and clean-air laws and increasing fees charged to companies that mine on public lands. Vento got a scare in 1994, when Dennis Newinski made a strong showing for the seat...
...another roll in the mud, Pressler with a new round of ads attacking Johnson for the Washington Babylon rumors, Johnson with charges about Pressler's use of campaign funds for personal expenditures. South Dakota voters hoping for a probing debate of the issues may be disappointed, but fans of high-level political intrigue are likely to stay tuned...
After the presidential elections, Lebed lobbied publicly, and successfully, for General Rodionov to be appointed Defense Minister. But sources close to the Kremlin tell TIME that when Lebed recently tried to dictate to Rodionov a list of high-level personnel changes in the ministry, "Rodionov told him what to do with his list." Lebed's opponents in the political establishment are hoping that time will erode his lead. If the Chechnya peace agreement unravels, or Yeltsin recovers, Lebed's premature election campaign will look both indelicate and unwise. But in either case, Lebed might well walk out of the government...
Early in the morning of Nov. 5, 1995, exactly a year before Election Day, Bob Dole was jetting from South Dakota to accompany the man whose job he sought. As Senate majority leader, Dole had been asked to join a high-level, bipartisan delegation assembled by Bill Clinton to attend the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister assassinated only hours earlier. Dole had barely known Rabin but viewed him as a soul mate nonetheless--a "no-nonsense kind of guy," he told me as we flew toward Washington--someone "who knew how to get things done." Those words...
...told her in advance about Clinton's offensive against tobacco and bragged about a deal he had worked out to provide Saudi financing for scholarships for children of American veterans of the Gulf War. Clinton aides said Morris had no White House pass nor the kind of high-level clearance that would give him access to national security secrets...