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Either you love them or you hate them. For the G.O.P., they are sacred. "The tax cut is the glue that holds together the coalition that balances the budget," says House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Yet to purist budget balancers, the cuts are heresy. "We see tax cuts as demagoguery. They take the public's mind off the real issue of sharing the sacrifice," says Michael Holtzman, director of the New York office of the anti-deficit Concord Coalition...
...talent have made a great magazine even greater. Many of his covers will live long after their issue dates: the 20th Century Blues, the Case for Killing Social Security, and the Black Renaissance, to name just three. During his tenure, TIME superbly covered the war in Bosnia, the Newt Gingrich revolution and its effect on American politics, the O.J. Simpson trial and, most recently, the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, which happened a scant 24 hours before the magazine went to press...
...Army Reserve Captain Lynda Davis has been released from active duty in the Bosnia peacekeeping mission because of unspecified heart and blood problems. The wife of Newt Gingrich's press secretary Tony Blankley, and the mother of two small boys, Davis reported to Fort Benning last Thursday in preparation for shipping out to Germany, and possibly, Bosnia. Davis, a public relations executive who would perform similar duties for the Army, said today that she has been very ill for three months. She added that while she cannot serve in uniform at this time, she would like to help soldiers...
...expected, Jesse Jackson Jr., son of the civil rights activist, handily beat his G.O.P. opponent for the Chicago-area House seat vacated by scandal-tainted Mel Reynolds. In California, Republican Tom Campbell turned back a Democratic attempt to link him to Speaker Newt Gingrich and won a San Jose House seat, and former Democratic state assembly speaker Willie Brown was elected mayor of San Francisco...
...COUP OF THE YEAR: The Colin Powell presidential campaign/book tour. Runner-up: The Newt Gingrich presidential campaign/book tour...