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...corporate executives about toxic waste. It was there during his first presidential campaign, in 1988, when he twisted the facts when attacking Michael Dukakis and baited Dick Gephardt for flip-flopping on abortion, an issue on which Gore had flip-flopped. And it was there when he demolished Ross Perot, Jack Kemp and Bill Bradley in debates...
Life isn't so simple, of course, for the Reform Party. The independent movement forged by Ross Perot, which garnered nearly a fifth of the vote in 1992, is in chaos. At its convention last week in Long Beach, Calif., there were shoving matches and a major split. One group chose former G.O.P. candidate Pat Buchanan, while a smaller group gave its nod to John Hagelin, physicist and transcendental-meditation advocate. (One sign at the convention: NOMINATE JIMMY CARTER TO UNITE THE REFORM PARTY.) Each claims the nomination and $12.5 million in federal funds, which leads to one question: After...
...John Hagelin, a nuclear physicist who believes wind power and transcendental meditation are the way to start solving the country's problems. Hagelin, a soft-spoken professor at Maharishi University who is getting his first taste this week of national media exposure, has adopted most of Ross Perot's platform and won the support of most of the Texas billionaire's supporters. He plans to merge his current presidential candidacy with the Natural Law party with the Reform banner, rise above the current fray and pull a Jesse Ventura on an American electorate that he says is thirsting...
...witty and undeniably well-turned tirades against the "godless New World Order," the "gods of the global economy" and the "Visigoths and Vandals of multiculturalism." Simultaneously, Hagelin was sounding softer - and considerably more soporific - notes in his acceptance speech, steering clear of social issues in the Perot tradition and calling on his audience of delegates and supporters in a decidedly more new-agey call to arms. "This is your party," he told the cheering crowd. "Breathe strength into it. Grow it into America's next major party...
...Hagelin drafted a complaint to the FEC earlier in the week claiming Buchanan used fraudulent means to win the Reform party election. The Buchanan camp has up to 15 days to answer the charges before the FEC makes its decision, but Pat Choate, Perot's 1996 running mate and now a friend of the Buchanan campaign, feels Hagelin's complaint is a non-issue. "Pat will have certification from the duly elected party chairman and treasurer that the FEC recognizes. That's that. The money will come quick and if it doesn't, we'll just pop it in straight...