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When Vice President George Bush arrived at the fashionable Amway Grand Plaza Hotel last week, a full police escort flanked his 15-car motorcade, and the cream of Grand Rapids society turned out, checkbooks at the ready. New York Congressman Jack Kemp made a less elaborate entrance: he arrived at the Midway Motor Lodge on the outskirts of town late one night and was lmet the next morning by grass-roots Republican activists with toddlers in tow. Although the next Republican presidential nominee will not be chosen for more than two years, Bush and Kemp find themselves already engaged...
Part of the reason it has got out of hand is that Bush and Kemp are both making the Michigan precinct races a test of their early strength. Bush has been in Michigan seven times in the past year; Kemp has visited nine times since the beginning of 1985 and returns again this Saturday.Bush's political- action committee has raised some $400,000 in the state, $150,000 of which will be spent there; the Michigan Opportunity Society, which supports Kemp, will have raised and spent about $150,000 by May 27. Although Robert Dole and Howard Baker have pretty...
...Administration supporters tried to quiet the political uproar, Bush's potential rivals for the 1988 nomination helped keep him on the hot seat. "I certainly think it's a mistake to go to the Saudis for help to firm up the price of oil," New York Congressman Jack Kemp told the Buffalo News. Asked for his comments on Bush's predicament, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole declared, "I don't believe in throwing an anchor to a drowning...
Much of the criticism of corporate antidrug efforts focuses on the growing use of urinalysis (see box). Opponents charge that urine tests are a particularly invasive and humiliating method of determining whether a worker has used drugs. Says Bus Driver Randy Kemp, whose employer, Seattle Metro, requires employees who appear to be impaired to submit blood and urine samples: "You've got to have a search warrant to search my house. Well, my body is a lot more sacred than my home...
...Kemp said Davidson's resignation was "the best birthday present I've ever...