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...Newt Gingrich's office, decorated with bloody Civil War battle scenes, makes an ideal command headquarters. Atop the highest ground in the city, he can survey the entire territory he hopes to conquer-and plot the ambush he says can clinch that victory. By fall, Gingrich predicted in an interview with TIME, the Republican Congress will have passed a raft of bills to implement its seven-year plan to balance the budget and will confront Bill Clinton with an excruciating choice. He will have to sign on to spending cuts that will inflame his Democratic supporters or veto them...
...doing that. His rivals have stumbled and stagnated, which means that each week without a Dole misstep reduces the chances that they will ever catch up. The growing sense that the second tier is fading, however, has raised the prospect that other contenders will jump in, chief among them Newt Gingrich...
Dole's aides admit that June will bring a distracting boomlet in stories and speculation about Newt Gingrich's own plans in 1996. As Ralph Reed, executive director of the Christian Coalition, says, "Newt is not entirely satisfied that the presidential race fully reflects the revitalization [of the party] that he has brought." Gingrich is scheduled to visit 25 cities around the U.S. this summer to promote his new book, To Renew America, whose publisher, HarperCollins, is printing 500,000 copies on the first run. Dole aides say they aren't worried about Gingrich; the House Speaker has assured them...
...anxious advocates for the poor and elderly fight to stave off budget cuts, the Pentagon seems immune. 0ne would never know it, however, from the rhetoric wielded on behalf of Pentagon spending. "You couldn't fight Desert Storm today," House Speaker Newt Gingrich told TIME, despite Pentagon assertions that the U.S. military is now primed to fight two such wars at once. "We're going to get people killed if we downsize much more...
...Dole's new crusade against sex and violence in Hollywoodis broad-minded enough to include the work of fellow Republican Newt Gingrich, whoseupcoming novelincludes a highly-suggestive passage about a "pouting sex kitten." On NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday, moderator Tim Russert sprung a reading of the House Speaker's book on the presidential aspirant: "Suddenly the pouting sex kitten gave way to Diana the huntress. She rolled onto him, sitting athwart his chest, her knees pinning his shoulders. 'Tell me, or I'll make you do terrible things."' Asked about the language, Dole said: "It's troubling...