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...moderated by Peter Jennings this Thursday, April 26, at 11:30 p.m. EDT. Following a 10 p.m. ABC News special on Vietnam, Jennings, with Cloud, will lead a discussion of U.S. policy toward Indochina. Other guests will include Henry Kissinger, General William Westmoreland, Nebraska Senator and Vietnam veteran Robert Kerrey and former Lieut. William Calley, the U.S. commander during the My Lai massacre. The show should be a useful complement to TIME's report...
With no bona fide contender to write about, Yepsen lobbed in a column two weeks ago on the virtues of neighboring Nebraska's telegenic Senator Robert Kerrey. In the great political quiet, the piece created a sonic boom. Kerrey, 46, an adequate Governor and untested Senator, is now the toast of political pundits and television interviewers. They dwell less on his vague achievements in government than on his travels, his Medal of Honor from Vietnam, his mastery of a restaurant business and the fact that he lured Hollywood's sexy superstar Debra Winger to his bachelor quarters in Lincoln. Those...
...Kerrey, like other Democratic mentionables, has not formed a political- action committee to raise funds, set up an exploratory committee, hired a pollster, secretly gathered a brain trust or assembled any of the normal paraphernalia of political conquest. At a similar point in previous election cycles, John Kennedy had barnstormed the U.S.; George McGovern, Gary Hart and Walter Mondale had functioning organizations; and Jimmy Carter and Richard Gephardt had wandered purposefully through Iowa's byways...
...long ago, a retired Senator walked into the office of Robert Strauss, former Democratic chairman, and urged him to announce his candidacy. Strauss, 71, declared himself too old. The prominent whisper now is that the Democrats should field the soothingly sensible Bentsen as a sacrificial lamb and put Kerrey beside him to position the Nebraskan for the big Quayle bash in '96. Trouble is that neither Bentsen nor Kerrey has said he would go along with the plan. It may be a while before Dave Yepsen sees anything on his far horizons but Washington's trial balloons...
...least two Democrats are already calling for an overhaul of the bailout. Minnesota Congressman Bruce Vento and Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey proposed bills last month that would scrap the Oversight Board and concentrate all responsibility for the rescue effort within one agency. Says Kerrey: "This is the No. 1 domestic problem, and it isn't being given the attention it deserves. Bush has dropped the ball." Even so, Congress and the Administration are likely to avoid returning to the S&L problem this year. Almost no one wants to admit defeat on a much applauded plan so soon after enacting...