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...SUSAN MOLINARI CONGRESSWOMAN, NEW YORK...
...DIEGO: A 38- year old pro-choice Congresswoman from Staten Island, Susan Molinari is one of the rising stars of the Republican Party, and the keynote speaker of the party's National Convention scheduled to speak Tuesday night. For her whole career, Molinari has opposed calls for a constitutional amendment banning abortion, and the prosecution of doctors who perform them, two items specifically mentioned in the Republican Party Platform. Bob Dole picked Molinari for the role in a gesture TIME's Elaine Rivera calls "an olive branch to moderate, pro-choice Republicans." Falling into step with the moderate line that...
...convention hall. Birnbaum notes that while Dole might have upset Reed, the Christian Coalition is not threatening a walkout: "Most would still vote for Dole because the alternative, to them, is even worse." Dole began his appeal to moderates last week, first by selecting pro-choice Representative Susan Molinari as keynote speaker and then persuading retired (and pro-choice) General Colin Powell to address the convention on opening night. -- Lamia Abu-Haidar
...that Dole doesn't need," says TIME's Jeffrey Birnbaum. "But Dole's campaign has decided that it's more important to portray Dole as having a more moderate image than it is to appease Buchanan and his supporters." Ironically, Buchanan has applauded Dole's choice of Rep. Susan Molinari, a supporter of abortion rights, as the keynote speaker at the San Diego convention. -->