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...White House. Though in public they dismiss Buchanan as a nuisance -- Marlin Fitzwater noted last week that the White House "already had one Buchanan," in 1857 -- Administration officials privately admit that the ultraconservative columnist's entry in the primary race could force Bush to play more to the political right to avoid being outflanked by the co-star of the nightly CNN debatefest Crossfire. Buchanan's candidacy could make the Republican primary interesting -- even if only briefly. And his pesky debating style might be just what some senior Republicans say is needed to help get a passive and complacent Bush...
Reprisals could include a break in airline links between Libya and the outside world or an embargo on purchases of Libyan oil. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater even hinted at military action. But that might give only another spin to a long-running cycle of violence. To avenge the bombing, allegedly by Libya, of a German disco that killed two American soldiers, U.S. warplanes struck Tripoli and Benghazi in 1986. Speculation is that Gaddafi ordered the Lockerbie bombing in retaliation...
Baker told Bush he was "pleased with the way the conference had gone so far," said presidential spokesperson Marlin Fitzwater...
Last week, after an old-fashioned coup ousted Haitian President Jean- Bertrand Aristide, the entire western hemisphere focused its outrage on the brazen military bosses in Port-au-Prince. The Americas were not prepared to let Haiti's military men get away with it. Their takeover, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said bluntly, "will not succeed...
...journalists "covered" the events by sitting in the press room at Mezhdunarodnaya Hotel, a mile and a half from the Kremlin. There they read pool reports, watched CNN on projection TV screens, spoke mainly to one another and were given a single diplobabble briefing by the two press spokesmen, Marlin Fitzwater and Vitali Ignatenko...