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...Indonesia continues to ignore a region-wide crackdown on terrorists, it could become an inviting haven for bad guys on the run?and a launch site for future attacks. Evidence uncovered in the past few weeks proves that the groups have the means to cause terrible devastation. After interrogating Fathur, Philippine authorities were able to collect what National Police Chief Leandro Mendoza called the "biggest haul of explosives in the country's history." Police recovered more than a ton of TNT?enough to level a city block, according to police?as well as 500 detonators and 17 M-16 rifles...
...will help him heal some wounds and gain some valuable political capital. They will not alienate his base, and they will benefit Bush far more in the black community than naming Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice to his Cabinet has. First, President Bush can order the Justice Department to launch a full-scale investigation of allegations of voter irregularities and Fourteenth Amendment voter disenfranchisement violations in Florida. This will help him to neutralize criticism of his campaign and will also give him a bully pulpit to stay public on this issue and make sure he gets as much political credit...
...Bush's most profound attack on Clinton's economic legacy. In 1993, without G.O.P. support, Clinton pushed through a budget that raised taxes on the affluent and sliced into the burgeoning deficit. Most economists credit that deal with helping launch the next seven years of economic growth, but Bush partisans see it differently. "The Bush tax cut is a direct rollback of Clinton's largest tax increase in history," says Bush aide Ed Gillespie. But Bush may not end up cutting into Clinton's overall spending levels. His emphasis on education, military and health-care spending...
Bush will have trouble enough trying to execute Rove's plan in the face of Democratic opposition. But his biggest distraction may come from Republican rival John McCain, who is poised to launch an all-out battle on behalf of his favorite issue, campaign-finance reform. McCain will reintroduce his signature bill in the Senate this week and unveil a new grass-roots organization, Americans for Reform, to browbeat Congress into passing his ban on soft-money contributions. Bush, who hates the bill, plans to meet with McCain on Wednesday to try to talk him into delaying a vote until...
...have just returned from NATPE, the television industry's annual trade show in Las Vegas. (NATPE, by the way, stands for the National Association of Television Producers and Executives). This week, as CBS executives are counting on the launch of "Survivor 2" to follow the success of the series that made Richard Hatch the biggest TV star since, well, Darva Conger, hundreds of producers, studios and distributors of programming came to hang their shingle in one of the most bizarre bazaars on earth...