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...agenda" are viewed by his fans as both essential and impolitic. He wants to raise the age at which retirees can qualify for civil service pensions and cut cost of living adjustments for Social Security recipients; require wealthier people to pay more for their Medicare benefits; quit subsidizing rich retirees; cut military pensions, farm subsidies and price supports. And, he admits, "it will be politically traumatic." He guesses there may be a plurality of voters--maybe 40%--who are prepared to take him seriously. In the TIME/CNN poll, that number is just about exactly the size of support for such...
...some more. "I'm not certain whether it's addictive," Bob Dole insisted, like a mule-stubborn father who won't concede that his smart-aleck daughter is right. Why did Dole dig in so hard on the losing side of the smoking debate? He went through hell to quit the habit, and he used to get into fights with his first wife about her chain-smoking. He even lost his own brother to emphysema--so why play Mr. Tobacco on Today? As the minutes passed and Couric kept at him, he became angrier, knocking the "liberal elite that always...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Food and Drug Administration Wednesday approved the first nicotine patch for sale without a prescription, hoping that more smokers will be induced to quit. Smokers have long called for the approval of nonprescription patches, which send more nicotine through the blood stream than the nicotine gum already available over the counter. The FDA's approval of McNeil Consumer Products' one-dose nicotine patch, Nicotrol, will give the company a marked edge over the competition by allowing its product -->
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Food and Drug Administration Wednesday approved the first nicotine patch for sale without a prescription, hoping that more smokers will be induced to quit. Smokers have long called for the approval of nonprescription patches, which send more nicotine through the blood stream than the nicotine gum already available over the counter. The FDA's approval of McNeil Consumer Products' one-dose nicotine patch, Nicotrol, will give the company a marked edge over the competition by allowing its product -->
MOSCOW: On the eve of the Russian presidential runoff elections, all was supposed to be quiet, persuant to a 24-hour moratorium on campaigning. But the Communists just couldn't quit. On Tuesday, campaign officials for Communist leader Gennadi Zyuganov accused Russian Public Television of illegally censoring a political advertisement. While Zyuganov's campaign manager Valentin Kuptsov charged that omitting the five-minute advertisement was a serious breach of law, spokesmen for the TV channel said the ad was scrapped because it contained "unproven allegations" about election fraud and wasn't paid for. The Central Election Commission is expected...