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Details so far are fuzzy to nonexistent. Working them out will be one of the jobs of Donald Rumsfeld and Vin Weber, who last week were named co-directors of policy planning. Previously, what policy planning there had been was run out of Dole's back pocket, and that was plainly not working. Rumsfeld, a former White House chief of staff and Secretary of Defense, is regarded as a tough and smart operator, but some party veterans consider him to lack a sure instinct for what will win votes. They hope that deficiency will be compensated for by the appointment...
...Senate races. Cosseted in the clubbish ways of the Senate, Kerrey's colleagues were expecting gentlemanly homilies on the need to pitch in. Instead, recalls Daschle, "he began shouting like a drill sergeant, knocking out orders for the amount of fundraising he expected: 'Take it out of your own pocket, take it out of your campaign funds, go and raise it!'" Finally, a female Senator interrupted the barrage, saying, "Look, you don't have to shout at us." Kerrey stared back at her. "This is not a social society," he replied...
...moderate conservatives. Reagan spoke to the right as if they were equals; he never had to throw them raw meat because he never thought they were animals. And don't let the liberals in the party fuzz up the message. The conservatives are still small town and small pocket; the liberals are the moneybags of Team 100 who used to be entrepreneurs and lately are lobbyists. They're proabortion and disdain the icky Christians. (This kind of snobbery is as old as America itself.) Take their money and thank them, but do not let them dictate policy...
During his eight-day investigation, Van Kappen found evidence that no fewer than 36 Israeli shells had landed in or near the U.N. camp, concentrating in two areas. According to his report, the first pocket, 120 yds. south of the base, was struck almost exclusively by "impact-fuzed" shells, which explode when they hit the ground. These rounds, which are most effective at destroying equipment and munitions, landed close to where Hizballah had been firing a mortar at a nearby Israeli ground unit. The second area, located in the U.N. base itself, was hit mainly by "proximity-fuzed" shells, which...
...middle of traffic at a busy Los Angeles intersection. "He was yelling, 'Fight,' you know, 'don't give up, fight the power,' or something like that," a witness told TV station kcal. Police restrained the star of Bad Boys, who was carrying a handgun in his pocket, and delivered him to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where his doctor diagnosed his condition as exhaustion and dehydration. His publicist said drugs weren't involved and that Lawrence (said to be taking in $5 million per pic nowadays) should be back on the set of Nothing to Lose with Tim Robbins this week...