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HOSPITALIZED. FRANJO TUDJMAN, 74, President of Croatia; reportedly with cancer; at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington...
...Reed. With reporting by Daniel Eisenberg/New York
...fashion, key decisions were made by default. When Will brought in press secretary Nelson Warfield, who had worked in Ron Lauder's unsuccessful 1989 New York City mayoral campaign, Dole met with him for all of seven minutes--and then pronounced him O.K. For campaign manager, Lacy selected Scott Reed, a cool bureaucrat who had no ties to Dole but who had run the Republican National Committee for Haley Barbour. Reed had to be persuaded that Dole would let the campaign manager actually manage the campaign. By the time Dole locked up the nomination, every member of the original family...
...major contender, naturally, is the religious right, which controls much of the party apparatus on the state and local level. Ralph Reed, head of the Christian Coalition, is promising that in the next presidential race his 1.7 million-member organization will coordinate with other religious conservatives early in the Republican primaries to name their candidate. And this time, it won't be a halfhearted culture warrior like Dole...
Along the sawtooth edges of the Christian right, Reed is under suspicion as a political strategist who found religion rather than a committed religious conservative who found politics. He knows there is grumbling about him for tacitly backing Dole, a loser who hardly even touched on abortion and family issues in the campaign. Reed's defense--"It's hard to make the argument that this race would have been significantly closer if the nominee had been someone else" (Buchanan? Alan Keyes?)--is plausible enough. Even so, next time the pressure will be on Reed to find somebody agreeable to Gary...