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SOUTH AFRICA: In 1994, Mandela's sweeping reforms introduced to Parliament traditionally African items, such as long floral shirts. Verdict: Fresh, casual...
...public record and were ready with a barrage of attacks over votes he had cast in Congress in the 1980s. But when reporters peppered Cheney with questions about those votes--against banning "cop-killer" bullets, against funding the Head Start program, against calling for the release of Nelson Mandela from prison--Cheney and the Bush campaign seemed caught off guard...
...Democrats were shooting back last week that those fears didn't prevent him from supporting Reagan's massive military-spending increase. By the end of last week Cheney was also fumbling for a way to explain his opposition in 1986 to a call for the release of Nelson Mandela from a South African prison. And he has been mostly silent on why he was one of only 21 House members who voted against a bill to regulate armor-piercing "cop-killer" bullets, then one of just four who voted against a ban on plastic guns that cannot be picked...
...been, the bond had grown so strong Bush would not have wanted to see that Cheney's record lacks the compassion Bush spent a year trying to cement to the word conservative. Like the mild-mannered, nice guy he is, Cheney smiled when he voted against calling for Nelson Mandela's release from prison and in favor of cop-killer bullets, against $1 billion for Head Start but for a $870 billion tax cut. Until his record was parsed this week, a lot of people vaguely remembered him as a moderate...
...Best Growling Match (WP) Cheney to Donaldson on "This Week" Sunday: "So what trivial question did you want to ask me?" Donaldson to Cheney: "Well, a lot of people think Nelson Mandela is not trivial." Touch?...