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...made it clear that the U.S. would not tolerate any opposition; indeed, the Security Council resolution suspended the rules that usually limit U.N. peacekeepers from shooting first. The Pentagon was not certain what kind of reception to expect from Somali gunmen, armed mostly with $ rifles and mortars, but spokesman Pete Williams said the U.S. was "not looking to go in with guns blazing...
LOOK OUT, CALIFORNIA. WHEN GOVERNOR PETE WILSON AND the legislature finally closed that huge budget gap two months ago, they employed a bit of creative bookkeeping, including borrowing from anticipated revenues. But those optimistic assumptions collapsed as the economic slump persisted. Already more than $2 billion in the hole, the new California budget may come up short a stunning $6 billion by Christmas...
...leading apostle is Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp, who has spent the past four years trying to reach out to African Americans and other minorities with sermons about enterprise zones, ownership and management of tenant housing, and school choice. This group also includes former Delaware Governor Pete du Pont, former Secretary of Education William Bennett and a host of like-minded Republicans in the House of Representatives. Most G.O.P. veterans acknowledge that whoever takes control of the party in 1996 will have to adopt at least some of the progressives' ideas. "The country stands ready to reward...
Pragmatic Republicans. What's left of the moderate wing of the Republican Party inhabits the state capitals. Socially moderate but economically conservative, this group is generally tough on crime, tolerant of abortion rights and concerned about deficits. It is typified by such G.O.P. Governors as Pete Wilson of California and William Weld of Massachusetts who have had to wrestle with sluggish economies as well as the mood swings of an electorate whose jobs are shifting rapidly from the high-wage manufacturing sector to lower-wage service and information industries. This group is less reluctant than other G.O.P. factions...
...Republican National Committee chairman Rich Bond, who seemed to be everywhere last summer peddling his line "Those other people are not America" to anyone who stuck a microphone in his face, is also missing in action. With disaster looming, Bond has become fair game: last week former Delaware Governor Pete du Pont broke with tradition and openly began to lobby...