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Locke, who spent two years as a manager at the Hanford Reservation's Pacific Northwest National Lab, has alleged that opponent Richard Hastings didn't object forcefully enough to an implicit threat by presidential candidate Bob Dole to cut funding for the Lab if he is elected. But in a district that generally leans Republican, it remains to be seen if he can break Hastings' hold...
...sorry state of affairs in the press-rooms of our nation's capital. The press will nervously chuckle in self-conscious amusement and politicos will roar with delight. But the Washington outsider who witnesses the absurdity without getting the jokes will best understand This Town as an implicit warning about the corrosive effects of scandal-driven, self-promoting journalism on democratic government...
Third, much of Dole's campaign has been built around a discussion of Bill Clinton's character. The drug issue is not only about national policy. It is about the implicit question of why President Clinton has failed to speak out about drug use and why it is impossible for him to do so. The answer is because of Clinton's "unmentionable" past drug use. Dole doesn't really need to say this. As his "Saturday Night Live" character would say, "You know it, I know, the American people know it." The same applies for Dole's erstwhile discussion...
...their differences with Speaker Gingrich than with Clinton. With the President in his centrist incarnation, Cremeans' adviser, Barry Bennett, is not the only Republican boasting, "You can pick 10 big issues, and we're a lot closer to Clinton than our opponent is." Behind this explicit message is an implicit one: the virtue of divided government, if only as a check on the President's liberal instincts...
...radio station that beamed anti-Saddam propaganda into Iraq 11 hours each day. Finally, they also left behind 1,500 members of the Iraqi National Congress, an opposition group based in Erbil, to whom the CIA had given financing, arms and--the I.N.C. now claims--an implicit understanding that if anything went wrong, these U.S. allies would not be abandoned to fend for themselves...