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...Bill Clinton (D--Arkansas) is a political genius. The Georgetown-educated Rhodes Scholar has managed to get elected governor for 14 years, longer than any other current U.S. chief executive. And he's won in Arkansas, where Rhodes Scholar may as well mean you work for the Highway Department. This man knows how to win elections...
...closer look at Clinton's record belies his newly discovered moderate views. In the '70s, Clinton won initial praise as a business-bashing consumer advocate-type state Attorney General. In his first term as governor, he piloted unpopular highway taxes through a hostile legislature. He commuted more death sentences than any previous governor. He had a solid environmental record...
...miles south of Kansas City, near the center of the U.S. but isolated from everything. You reach it by a two-lane highway that snakes through the Ozark Mountains with nothing but oak trees for company. You round a corner and -- Look! -- there is a line of campers and cars stretching to the horizon, crawling along a five-mile strip of neon lights that flash from theaters, motels and miniature golf courses...
...Milwaukee mass-murderer Jeffrey Dahmer was making headlines -- when Louisiana police arrested Evans. He told them he had kidnapped, raped and strangled Beatrice Routh, a 10-year- old homeless girl, on Aug. 1. As proof, he led police to her body in a grassy field off a rural Mississippi highway. Last week a murder charge in the Routh case was filed against Evans in Mississippi. Federal kidnapping charges will follow this week...
Lest anyone doubt it, the main road into Baalbek bears a sign saying "Martyrs of Islam Street, the road to Jerusalem." A 15-ft.-high replica of Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque stands in the middle of the highway. Nearby, the side of a building is painted with the face of Ayatullah Khomeini and the words ISRAEL MUST BE WIPED OUT OF EXISTENCE...