Word: republican
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DADDY'S BOY Bush's name may be his greatest asset, but opponents, both Republicans and Democrats like Al Gore, are preparing to embarrass George "Dubbuya" by wheeling out George Senior at every turn. "You know he was never really one of us" will be the refrain of conservatives, who count the elder's failed promise of "no new taxes" in 1988 as one of the greatest betrayals in Republican Party history. They will also compare George W.'s warm relations with Texas Democrats to his father's "accommodationist" approach toward the other party on Capitol Hill. And they...
Politicians too--surprise!--have discovered the elixir of schoolroom values. Last week Senator Pete Domenici, New Mexico Republican, proposed legislation to provide an additional $125 million over five years for character-education programs. At his conference last week on school violence, President Clinton--without apparent irony--endorsed character education. And Dan Quayle has expressed his own ideas on how to proceed: "I suggest [students] start with the Ten Commandments." (It sure beats spelling bees...
...fund raising that there's a finite universe of donors who will ante up $1,000 for a presidential contender, but BILL BRADLEY seems to be breaking the mold. His supporters include heavy hitters in the business world who have never been involved in politics, and even some Republicans. Goldman Sachs president JOHN THORNTON hasn't raised money for a candidate before, doesn't even give to the company's political-action committee; but since meeting Bradley nine months ago, he has been asking for and getting checks from friends--including Goldman chairman HENRY PAULSON, a Republican who's backing...
...Yoda of the arms trade. Formerly the Defense Department's export czar, he knows every sinkhole in the regulatory swamp. Ignore him at your peril -- as executives of Space Systems/Loral found out. A 700-page report to be issued this week by a select House committee chaired by Republican representative Christopher Cox of California tells how, on April 11, 1996, Bryen warned Loral president Robert Berry not to give China any technical help without first getting State Department permission. Berry had just announced the assignment of top company engineer Wah Lim to head a panel of Western scientists who would...
Where have you gone, Joe McCarthy, oh, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you.... Yes folks, Republican efforts to warn Americans of the danger of fuzzy liberals in charge of the nation's political system -- and its nuclear secrets -- are about to go into overdrive. On Tuesday, Representative Christopher Cox plans to release the report of his congressional inquiry, containing "grave" revelations of Chinese nuclear espionage that "continues to this very day." The Cox committee's star witness, former Energy Department intelligence chief Notra Trulock, on Sunday warned that this was the biggest thing since the Rosenbergs...