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...chance to rub shoulders with Newt, Bob and Jack isn't worth sticking it out at the Republican convention any longer. The Nightline host is heading home, claiming that amid the puffery and made-for-TV grandstanding, there just isn't any news to cover at the GOP pow-wow. Koppel is taking most of his crew along, and says he won't bother even showing up at the Democratic Convention. "This convention is more of an infomercial than a news event," Koppel said at the end of his broadcast Tuesday night. "Nothing surprising has happened. Nothing surprising is anticipated...
...chance to rub shoulders with Newt, Bob and Jack isn't worth sticking it out at the Republican convention any longer. The Nightline host is heading home, claiming that amid the puffery and made-for-TV grandstanding, there just isn't any news to cover at the GOP pow-wow. Koppel is taking most of his crew along, and says he won't bother even showing up at the Democratic Convention. "This convention is more of an infomercial than a news event," Koppel said at the end of his broadcast Tuesday night. "Nothing surprising has happened. Nothing surprising is anticipated...
Although she may be a high-pow- ered attorney, Marshall keeps her feet firmly planted on the ground, Sashin said...
...Phil Gramm in the early primaries, was tangentially involved in the Keating Five savings-and-loan scandal and led the fight to open diplomatic relations with Vietnam? Not most people with that kind of resume. But Arizona Senator John McCain, 59, spent 5 1/2 years in a North Vietnamese pow camp and would give the G.O.P. a kind of Double-Hero ticket, compounding strength with strength much as Bill Clinton did with Al Gore. Dole insiders view McCain as potentially the last man standing, the one to whom Dole would turn if the other candidates fell short. The Arizona Senator...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In the wake of the suicide of the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, Pentagon officials and lawmakers are asking whether Admiral Michael Boorda deliberately wore Vietnam combat decorations he knew he was not entitled to wear. Arizona Senator and former Vietnam POW John McCain came to the admiral's defense and said Boorda could have made an honest mistake. But others in the military suggested that such an error was inconceivable, particularly for a man who had run a naval personnel office for years. Boorda shot himself in the chest Thursday soon after learning that a Newsweek reporter...