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...INITIAL WHITE HOUSE REACtion to the Los Angeles riots was to blame them on the "failed" Democratic poverty programs of the '60s and '70s. That claim by Marlin Fitzwater was pilloried so mercilessly that President Bush had to backpedal away from his own spokesman. But Fitzwater's comments did not come out of a vacuum. Bush has made public assistance -- specifically welfare -- a constant target of his campaign rhetoric. He compared the dole to a "narcotic" in his State of the Union message and regularly peppers his speeches with vows to "change welfare and make the able-bodied work...
...needed for the Los Angeles Police Department to cede temporary control of the streets to looters and arsonists. Even as the faint traces of smoke still linger in the air, the L.A. riots have begun their transformation from grisly reality to political cliches. Beginning with White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater, Republicans blamed the rioting on everything from Lyndon Johnson's Great Society to liberal permissiveness. The Democratic response, from putative presidential nominee Bill Clinton on down, was equally predictable: this time the villains were a decade of Republican neglect of urban problems and the laissez-faire moral climate...
...order, or heed calls for new efforts to heal racial animosity, or demand some elusive combination of both? Unable to fix immediately on the right blend, candidates instinctively responded by trying to place blame, while piously denying that they were doing any such thing. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater initially blamed Democratic Great Society social programs enacted in the '60s and '70s that had backfired -- a statement so widely derided that Bush quickly amended it to say merely that those programs had lamentably not worked very well. Democratic heir presumptive Bill Clinton in turn decried "12 more years of neglect...
...members of the newly elected SAC are Aida E. Bekele '94, Roger A. Fairfax '94, Lilia Fernandez '95, Frederick Y. Huang '94, Kenneth A. Katz '93, Ouzama N. Nicholson '94, Marlin B. Smith '94, Aaron J. Snow '93, Adam D. Taxin '93 and Grace T. Wang...
...foreign policy and education, had been hoping to get ahead of his rival by focusing on trade matters. But Clinton's "theme of the week" attack trumped Bush's own effort, and the President hurriedly launched a counterattack on Clinton's environmental record. "This man," said Bush spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, "does know pollution. He's got it. He's caused...