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...should have done last time, right? As even Richard Nixon advised two months after the Gulf War ended in 1991: "If I could find a way to get him out of there, even putting a contract out on him . . . I would be for it." Only Ross Perot is as publicly bold today, but the words "unfinished business" are on almost everyone's lips. From the soldier in the desert to the folks at home, most Americans (72% in the latest TIME/CNN poll) favor using military force to remove Saddam Hussein. The White House too seems on board. If it comes...
...Foley-ate," a Perot-like grass-roots campaign, is seeding the Internet's popular usenet newsgroups with electronic press releases urging Spokane-area voters to make Tom Foley the first sitting Speaker of the House to be dumped in 134 years. The group claims to have raised at least $10,000 since it began online appeals two weeks ago. Will the beleaguered Foley campaign hit back on the Net? "We're not really up on it at this point," said an aide...
...incarnation will have to wait. Less than 24 hours before the House of Representatives was set to act on the treaty, Gingrich blocked a vote until after the November elections. He juggled several excuses for his U-turn in public, but his chief explanation in private was that Ross Perot made him do it. Gingrich lamented to Democratic leaders that the Texas industrialist was bombarding him with telephone calls last Tuesday. Apparently that was enough for Gingrich to cave in. "I know," Gingrich told the leaders afterward, "that there's some distrust on your side about me." That, a Democratic...
...favored the Washington Post Co., which owns a controlling interest in one of the cellular operations and was therefore an example of the special breaks contained in the thousand-page legislation that deserved further study. The unnecessary delay left even some Republicans appalled. "Pandering to protectionism -- and to Ross Perot," said Bill Kristol, who runs the Project for the Republican Future, "is bad for the Republican Party and the United States...
...public interest -- particularly on a pact as vital as GATT. Better to wait until the new Congress is installed, they might say, than let an old one make any more mistakes. Add to the mix the usual round of talk-show shrillness, a few salvos from Perot and the usual White House miscues, and all bets are off. "Anything could happen," admits an Administration official, "because the future of GATT is in Republican hands...