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...young but experienced, conservative anti-abortion Catholic. At 47, Nickles has a solid conservative record on both social and fiscal issues; in 1992, he served as platform committee chair at the Republican National Convention and helped defeat an effort by moderates to soften the party's anti-abortion platform plank. But Nickles' abortion stance apparently has not deterred him from reveling in Dole's interest: he said in a statement Tuesday that he was "honored" to be included among those being contacted by Dole's search committee. Nickles has long been a Dole loyalist, but one Republican source told...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: As the GOP convention draws nearer, pro-life Republicans are determined that the anti-abortion plank in their party platform will not change. But many Republicans oppose the abortion ban. An Associated Press poll discovered a wide moderate streak on abortion among Republican National Convention delegates. About 34 percent want to remove the plank supporting a constitutional amendment to outlaw abortion, while fewer than half of the delegates want to retain the controversial language. A full quarter of the delegates do not know how they stand, or didn't answer the question. The moderates may have a highly...
...Hurricane Bertha, Dole wasn't done shattering windows and scattering debris. Within 48 hours, he started all over again, telling CBS News that he would, if elected, "probably" veto the ban. A day later, Dole issued long-awaited platform language on abortion that reaffirmed the party's strong antiabortion plank just a month after he promised to temper it. By Friday the irresolution on assault weapons looked less like a mistake and more like a pattern...
...gave him a lot of help on his Hollywood speech." By making the fight personal, Dole got everyone so caught up in skirmishing that most of the coverage missed the central fact that Dole hasn't changed his commitment to ban most abortions--or the actual party plank--one iota. That's the beauty of making a friend an enemy, however temporarily...
...have him believe. Three weeks ago, conservative organizer Howard Phillips courted Buchanan during a four-hour dinner to join his U.S. Taxpayers Party, and Buchanan seemed only slightly interested. But Buchanan aides are giving that option a much closer look since Dole began watering down the G.O.P.'s antiabortion plank. Phillips tells TIME he was contacted last week by a senior Buchanan aide who expressed concern that the Taxpayers Party was not trying to get on the ballot in Indiana, Georgia and Michigan, states important to an independent Buchanan run. So Phillips is raising money to get on those ballots...