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...fighters--Gideon's army," as he calls it. Whether rattling around the Midwest in his battered Toyota, the Mamas and the Papas playing on his tape deck, or flying on frenetic forays through Maryland, Mississippi, Kansas and Louisiana, he carries everywhere a camouflage-covered Bible. Also in his pocket: a worn copy of the Combat Leader's Field Guide with chapters such as "Ambushes" and "Prisoners of War." Inside the flaps are phone numbers of anticasino agitators in Waterloo, Iowa; Merrillville, Indiana; Pomona, California; Delavan, Wisconsin and beyond. "We're fighting a battle for the soul of America," he says...
...MILLION DOLLARS THAT TAXPAYers spend to promote Uncle Ben's rice in Poland, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. The $2 billion government outlay that helps keep electric power a bargain in Aspen and Hilton Head. The $3 million that a cargo-ship owner can expect to pocket for making his vessel available to Uncle Sam in wartime--even though the Pentagon no longer wants it. Was it only a year ago that the full-throated budget warriors of the Republican revolution were unleashing a pitiless campaign to cut off the tens of billions of dollars expended each year on subsidies...
Nader is more interested in spreading his message than winning. He is raising no money and intends to spend less than $5,000 from his own pocket, foreseeing a campaign of video- and audiocassettes. Still, Republicans are excited about his prospects. Says G.O.P. pollster Bill McInturff: "The Greens are my favorite little splinter party...
...There's a snow fence along the roof up there. The snow drifted over the fence and into the pocket," he said. "It built up until it collapsed...
...state that gave him his margin last time, he met his disciples. Lillian Giberson, 84, spent most of her working life working for a Democrat in the Maine legislature. She hobbled across the street in the falling snow to hear Buchanan speak at the Caledonia Opera House. In the pocket of her old blue snow jacket she carried an envelope containing $100. She said she'd been paid $50 by the Alexander campaign to post his sign in her front yard. The other $50 she took from her Social Security check. Before the evening was over, she had stuffed...