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...call for a "civil war" against crime and drugs. In 1988 two different journalists wrote that Perot encouraged Dallas cops to "go in ((to high-crime neighborhoods)), cordon off the whole area, going block by block, looking for guns and drugs." When the stories first appeared, Perot was mum -- a telling silence since no one can recall his having ever let a perceived inaccuracy stand uncorrected. Today, however, with such famous civil libertarians as Dan Quayle predicting that Perot would gut the Constitution, the un-candidate swears, "I never said...
...strange pulsing noises for months. Seismologists at Caltech have been picking up echoes of extremely fast overflights heading east from Los Angeles. Now Royal Air Force radar technicians at the NATO base in Machrihanish, Scotland, have identified the cause of it all. Officially, the U.S. Air Force is mum. But insiders say Lockheed has been test-flying AURORA, the top-secret hypersonic U.S. spy plane, code-named "Senior Citizen," which can fly at speeds exceeding 4,000 m.p.h. That's about 90 min. from Washington to Baghdad...
...accepted "full responsibility" for what some people had begun to call the "Mean Queen Machine." The next step in damage control was to negotiate a deal with the departing duchess: a possible $4 million-plus settlement, along with retention of a noble "courtesy title," in exchange for her keeping mum about life at court...
Tsongas remains very much a player in this election. He refuses to endorse either of the two remaining candidates and is mum about running with Clinton in the fall. In the past, he denied repeatedly any interest in the vice presidency, and those who know him well doubt he is suited to the job. He is supremely independent, and would chafe at the limits of the office...
...folly the right of rich and poor to draw equal retirement stipends. But at least Tsongas is talking about the problem. Clinton has run away. At a dinner in New York City a year ago, Clinton responsibly endorsed Bush's Medicare plan. Since then, however, he's been mum...