Word: kemp
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...enthusiastic workers into dreary political scut work was most evident at the meeting in Ames, a fund-raising dinner that featured a straw poll for those who bought $25 tickets and had an Iowa driver's license. The Bush campaign, along with those of Bob Dole and Jack Kemp, went all out to pack the arena with supporters. But even before the first candidate spoke, it was obvious that Robertson's forces had pulled off a coup. Dressed in white T shirts and hats emblazoned with their champion's name, they clearly outnumbered and outcheered their rivals...
When the 3,843 votes were counted -- more than twice the turnout of eight years ago, when Bush won national notice with a surprising win -- Robertson had blindsided his opponents with 34% of the votes, vs. 25% for Dole, 23% for Bush and 14% for Kemp. Although the results had only symbolic significance, Robertson's victory showed his ability to turn out loyal supporters, which is critical to success in Iowa's February caucuses. With the verbal italics he uses so effectively, Robertson later proclaimed, "The Vice President has been wounded very badly...
Robertson completed his political hat trick Tuesday night in Lansing, Mich. The state's nominating process began more than a year ago with the election of , some 9,000 precinct-level delegates. Though Bush and Kemp both invested much time and money, Robertson's supporters pulled off a surprise: in succeeding county-level conventions, they joined forces with some Kemp supporters to win control of the party machinery. The issue last week before the state's party central committee was whether to enlarge the pool of precinct delegates by nearly 1,200 party regulars, most of them Bush supporters...
...Managua and vicinity has become particularly acute. No sooner had Robert Dole and four other Republican Senators checked out of the Nicaraguan capital last week, after some verbal sparring with President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, than Democratic Senator Tom Harkin checked in for a high-level chat. Meanwhile, Representative Jack Kemp and a delegation of 65 conservatives were traveling through Honduras, El Salvador and Costa Rica...
...five signatories to the Guatemala accord, Honduras is rapidly emerging as the least enthusiastic. Last week Honduran President Jose Azcona Hoyo told visiting Congressman Kemp that he thought the peace accord did not preclude continued U.S. aid to the contras. "Hondurans would really like a regional peace agreement, but they also want to maintain good relations with the U.S., and right now the two seem mutually exclusive," says a Western diplomat in Tegucigalpa. "So they are hanging on to the U.S. trapeze, too frightened to let go and try to catch the Central American trapeze...