Word: mate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...RACE FOR DOLE'S RUNNING MATE...
...BEAT BOB DOLE, SO he's picking a new fight--with Colin Powell. Sipping from a Styrofoam cup of Chardonnay during a late-night fl ight to Knoxville, Tennessee, last week, Buchanan told TIME, "If Dole wins the nomination and chooses Colin Powell as his running mate, the right-to-life movement will walk out of the convention, a good part of the Christian Coalition will walk, and the principled conservatives will battle" the Powell choice. Chief among them, he promises, will be Pat Buchanan...
...which case, Buchanan, who has already infuriated Republican leaders by his refusal to tone down his attacks on Dole, will also be pitting himself against the potential running mate who could do the most for the Republican ticket. Party elders know that Powell would bring Dole's campaign some much needed star quality, along with a hefty share of the black and moderate vote. When it comes to the vice presidency, says a senior Dole aide, "Powell is our first five choices...
...latest TIME/CNN poll suggests that if the election were held now, Clinton would beat Dole, 49% to 40%. Add the retired general to the ticket, however, and it's Dole-Powell over Clinton-Gore, 47% to 45%. Meanwhile, the political cost to Dole of a pro-choice running mate would appear to be manageable. Despite Buchanan's threats to rock the convention if Dole taps Powell, or any other pro-choice possibility, less than a quarter of Republicans surveyed would make abortion a litmus-test issue for their vice-presidential nominee. Only 12% would be less inclined to vote Republican...
...FlorCruz says. "Beijing is resigned to another four-year term of Lee. The ongoing military maneuvers tell Lee to take a softer stand or he'll find it hard to govern." For his part, Lee told an enthusiastic crowd of 1,500 farmers outside Taipei that he and running-mate Lien Chan were not "wimps with weak feet" and would not bow to "intimidation and surrender to Communist China...