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...life candidate. Both Whitman and Powell are pro-choice. Buchanan has threatened to launch an independent run for the White House if the Republican ticket and platform are not anti-abortion. Whitman's announcement leaves a quartet of Midwest governors as the leading vice- presidential contenders. Illinois' Jim Edgar, Michigan's John Engler, Ohio's George Voinovich and Wisconsin's Tommy Thompson all played visible roles in Dole's Midwest campaign earlier this month...
Courts in California and Michigan have recently ruled that physician-assisted suicide is legal, decisions which Wanzer said will give impetus to the assisted suicide movement in Massachusetts...
Buchanan's best hope to slow Dole was in Michigan, the only one of the four states that allocated its delegates in direct proportion to the results rather than on a winner-take-all basis...
These industrial battlegrounds are likely to be pivotal come November. Yesterday's results showed Dole getting 67 percent in Ohio, to 17 percent for Buchanan. Illinois was 61 percent for Dole and 24 percent for Buchanan. Early Michigan returns had Dole with 53 percent, Buchanan 34 percent--his best showing of the primary season...
...first hurdle. Dole swept four Midwest primaries Tuesday, clinching the Republican presidential nomination. Dole can now turn his attention fully to November's election. "The fall campaign is under way. It is 230 days to defeating Bill Clinton," he said. Dole easily beat rival Pat Buchanan in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin, pushing him past the 996 mark in delegates needed for the nomination. Buchanan has vowed to stay in the race in an effort to shape the GOP platform and Dole's choice for running mate. Dole ran unsuccessfully for his party's nomination...