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...vice president praised Kerry and the members of the Democratic ticket while criticizing Weld, Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole and House Speaker Newt Gingrich...
...sacred ground, where men like John Hancock and Sam Adams spoke out for our nation. My opponent has suggested that Newt Gingrich is the Sam Adams of our time," Kerry said. "Obviously that was on a day when he'd had too much Sam Adams...
...soberly calculated admission of defeat--and a final effort on behalf of the G.O.P. by a man who has devoted his life to his party? In a panic over the prospect of losing the Republican Congress, Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour and House Speaker Newt Gingrich have been pushing Dole toward California, where 52 House seats are up for grabs. Bearing down hard there means abandoning swing states elsewhere, so it could be damaging to whatever remains of his hopes for the presidency. But a big Dole effort could help G.O.P. congressional candidates throughout the state, the biggest...
This is a race where big guns are flying in for both sides. The AFL-CIO has been bombarding the district with ads attacking Riggs as a Friend of Newt, who has about the same local approval ratings as Dracula. Two weeks ago, the National Republican Congressional Committee finally struck back with ads saying the unions were trying to buy the election...
Last week Dole and his G.O.P. colleagues cast indignant scrutiny on the most ornate of the foreign-money controversies, in which donors connected with an Indonesian conglomerate gave large sums to the D.N.C. While no money-for-favors linkage was immediately apparent, House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other Republicans called for a probe into the curious circumstances. Among them: Last year the White House sent a routine get-well card to Hashim Ning, co-founder and major shareholder of the Lippo Group, a $6 billion insurance, banking and real estate empire controlled by Indonesian patriarch Mochtar Riady. Not long after...