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...will Saddam make concessions? Not likely. The Iraqi leader may be miscalculating the extent to which President Clinton's domestic problems are affecting his military resolve. According to Newt Gingrich, an unusual Clinton bedfellow at the moment, Saddam "might be confused by the difference between headlines and the national will...
...bilingual education has also spawned controversy in such states as New York, Michigan and Colorado. And it is a cause celebre among conservatives in Washington. "When we allow children to stay trapped in bilingual programs where they do not learn English, we are destroying their economic future," House Speaker Newt Gingrich declared this month. He and other Republicans call for a return to the traditional expectation that immigrants will quickly learn English as the price of admission to America...
...News survey said they were either in doubt over Clinton's alleged affair and perjury, or didn't know enough to say. Even Clinton's opponents are reticent in public: "I think every citizen ought to slow down, relax and wait for the facts to develop," a muted Newt Gingrich said Thursday...
...Resistance on the Hill has jeopardized the proposed $20 billion U.S. contribution to the IMF Asian bailout. Big Labor Democrats and traditional Republicans such as Newt Gingrich are on board, says Carney. "But there's a deepening nativist strain in the GOP, best characterized by someone like Pat Buchanan. They don't like explaining at home why the U.S. is spending billions to bail out some South Korean bank halfway around the world...
...tickets and favors from the likes of chicken czar Don Tyson) turns out to be perfectly legal for the lawmakers clamoring for his head. So many members find their way to the Super Bowl each year that they almost have a quorum in the stadium. Last month, Speaker Newt Gingrich flew to London first class with his wife ($20,268), staying at Claridge's ($12,225) and eating well (close to $700). Atlantic Richfield--the oil company with dreams of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge--paid for everything. "Every American," Gingrich said, "should make this trip...