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...Miami case breaks ground. Miami officials say they'll appeal the decision, and Vice Mayor Miriam Alonso says the judgment is bad for the city: "Homelessness is not the best image for tourism or business or the community at large." Miami also faces a shot in the pocketbook: the American Civil Liberties Union is seeking damages for the homeless of as much as $50 million...
...unsuccessful effort Monday to reopen debate on the platform's abortion plank, brought up the issue one more time for everyone to hear. "I happen to think that individual freedom should extended to a women's right to choose," Weld said. "I want the government out of your pocketbook and your bedroom...
According to Bush's campaign strategists, even a victory over Iraq would probably lose votes by underscoring the President's devotion to foreign policy at the expense of the pocketbook issues that matter most this year. Renewed Persian Gulf fighting, says a campaign official, promises to be "a lose-lose proposition for us. It could turn out badly, and we'd look incompetent. And even if it turned out well, a lot of people might think our priorities are misplaced...
...agents produced the ad. The G.O.P. campaign will doubtless engage in its own tough tactics, but it wants to calibrate its messages. Bush denounced Brown's work as "the kind of sleaze that diminishes the political process." The Bush- Quayle campaign tried to hit Brown's operation in the pocketbook last month by obtaining from the Federal Election Commission the names of 362 large donors to Citizens for Bush, a project of Brown's Presidential Victory Committee. A letter to each contributor pointed out that Brown's enterprises are not part of the Bush effort; those who had the wrong...
...such pocketbook arguments for liberalized trade aren't convincing enough, there are some compelling political ones. The countries in Latin America, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union now groping toward economic liberalism covet GATT membership as a way to reinforce market-oriented reforms ) and to win foreign investment. It would be unfortunate for GATT to wither and die just as these countries are joining...