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...America needs to be governed from the center," he says. Specter offers a mix of fiscal conservatism and social libertarianism. He is the party's lone pro-choice candidate and speaks out against government's imposing religious values. Opponents claim that by calling for the removal of the antiabortion plank from the party platform, he is exacerbating old wounds at the expense of the party. Specter claims the opposite: that keeping the provision divides the party by shutting out pro-choice members. On domestic and fiscal issues, Specter's conservative critics have less room for complaint. As a former district...
...divisive, which is why the candidates are fudging and hoping to remove the human-life plank from the platform. Christian Coalition director Ralph Reed, a proponent of a stealth strategy whereby state and local candidates obscure their social agenda until after they get elected, had been keeping his troops in line on abortion until the nomination of Dr. Henry Foster brought it to center stage. Reed then announced that the coalition would not support a pro-choice candidate, but he pressed no further. "Some would like us to begin the debate today," he says. "But we're not going...
Fine's other major plank is the elimination of "dead weight" on the council. Fine says he wants a more inclusive council, adding that he wants to assign a project or issue to every single council member...
...Home buyers who can still afford to shopthe average rate on 30-year fixed- rate mortgages has already climbed from 6.75% late last year to 9.2%, which helped cut housing starts 5.2% last monthare preparing to scrimp on other spending. Two weeks ago, Denver lawyer Patrick Plank and his wife Betsy took out a 9.5% fixed-rate mortgage with a low down payment that they are using to buy an $85,000 town house. "Any interest rate in single digits still looks good," Plank says. But the cost of the mortgage is forcing him to keep his 1987 Toyota instead...
...inducements to get them to switch positions. Meanwhile, Chiquita filed a formal protest against the European quotas in conjunction with the U.S. banana producers in Hawaii, even though the banana output in Hawaii doesn't amount to a hill of peels. The French threatened to scuttle the public-works plank of the GATT agreement unless Germany accepted the banana plank. The Germans refused, insisting on their right to import bananas at will, guaranteed by the 1957 Treaty of Rome. Back in the islands, the Prime Minister of the island of Dominica, Dame Eugenia Charles, has warned that if her people...