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...image is cuddly and grandmotherly, Marilyn Quayle can seem hard, intolerant and combative. "I'm a great devil's advocate," she explained in an interview with TIME. "I can pierce holes through anything." Convention organizers will try to turn her tough-as-nails reputation into a political asset. Her midweek address on health care and education will mark the first time a Vice President's wife has ever given an actual convention speech. "The idea," said a planner, "is to show women voters that you can be a Republican and not just wear Talbots and pearls and join the Junior...
...worse. Pay-Per-View Update, an industry newsletter, estimated that only 125,000 homes signed up for the two-week package. TripleCast officials said the figure was between 200,000 and 250,000. Either way, it represents a paltry fraction of the 2 million that had been projected. By midweek discounts were being offered: a reduced $19.95 a day and a special weekend rate of $29.95. But even if late sales pick up, the TripleCast will not come close to generating enough income to meet its costs -- about $100 million for production and promotion, plus whatever portion is allocated...
...most grimy practical considerations: Perot's inability to rev up his stalled candidacy. Hamilton Jordan and Ed Rollins, his odd-couple team of political handlers, were frustrated by the candidate's unwillingness to be handled. First Jordan was said to be heading for the door, but at midweek it was Rollins who actually left, thwarted by Perot's rejection of a pricey ad campaign. Then, suddenly, Perot himself was gone, stepping aside, he said, because he had concluded that he could not win in November. Or was he gone? In TV appearances Friday, he talked about helping to form...
...Brussels the European Community imposed limited economic sanctions on the rump Yugoslav state at midweek. The Serbian Orthodox Church said it was "openly distancing itself" from the government in Belgrade. Then came the revolting images of death in Sarajevo's marketplace and the U.S., Britain and France pressed the U.N. Security Council to impose full, mandatory sanctions...
...Buffalo campaign drew only 300 members to the area -- a battalion whose weakness led at least one leader to resort to sophistry. The women who kept their appointments at the clinics, said the Rev. Robert Schenck, were "no one of any consequence, I can assure you." By midweek, Buffalo's anti-abortion rights mayor, James Griffin, was backpedaling. After offering the group his "open arms" last October, he insisted last week that the gesture had not been "a formal welcome...