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...might ask why some congressmen think that these offices should be closed. The answer is that the pro-Israel lobby, 40 organizations strong, has insisted on the closing of the ofices. The supporters of these maneuvers include Senators Alan Cranston and Edward Kennedy, as well as presidential candidated Jack Kemp, Paul Simon, and Bob Dole...
Hoping to provoke a little candor among the six Republican presidential candidates on his television show, William F. Buckley Jr. asked Pierre du Pont why he would be a better choice than Jack Kemp. As du Pont began to answer with practiced evasion, Bob Dole broke in: "You're looking at me. Kemp's over there." "Yeah," replied du Pont evenly, "but the camera's behind you." Television, once the terror of politicians because it revealed character, now merely shows their carefully fashioned synthetic facades...
...last week's debate revealed the degree to which the Republicans are tugged by their own special interests: right-wing red hots. Front Runners Bush and Robert Dole found themselves pitted against a field of yapping underdogs, each catering to causes championed by conservative activists. Haig, du Pont, Jack Kemp and Pat Robertson all blasted Bush's ardent support for the proposed medium-range missile treaty; this attempt to score points by implying that Ronald Reagan may be soft on the Soviets showed * the strong pull exerted by the party's right wing. The conservative tide was so fierce that...
Reagan was once strong enough to keep the party's competing right-wing factions under one tent. But Bush and Dole lack his infectious appeal. As a result, each of their challengers is trying to capitalize on different touchstones of the "True Believers." Kemp is the fervent supply-sider, du Pont the apostle of free markets and Haig of standing tough and tall in the world. Perhaps most significant is Robertson's role as the Republican Jesse Jackson. The televangelist was never challenged on any of his debate statements, even when he claimed that the lost earnings of aborted fetuses...
...Kemp Concepts. This speculative security was buffeted by market worries about the value of its supply-side patents...