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Bill Clinton woos voters with the ardor of Pepe Le Pew. Bob Dole's cranky bombast suggests a gaunter Foghorn Leghorn. And Ross Perot? Yosemite Sam. Electoral politicking can get so cartoonish that the making of political-cartoon movies might seem redundant. But Cartoongate (Kino International Video), an hour-long melange of short film parodies compiled by animator Greg Ford, proves that the men who want your vote have long been a source for ripe, mean...
...investigation, the stories allege that a San Francisco Bay-area drug ring, headed by Danilo Blandon and Norwin Meneses, two men with close ties to a CIA-sponsored Nicaraguan contra group known as the FDN, sold tons of coke to a notorious Los Angeles-based dealer named Freeway Rick Ross. Millions of dollars, according to Webb, were then sent back to the secret war against the leftist Sandinista regime. Webb provides a plethora of court documents, recorded interviews and photographs, all of which have been posted on the Mercury's site on the World Wide Web www.sjmercury.com/drugs/)...
Diminutive Texas billionaire and presidential candiate Ross Perot spent the week bitterly complaining about his exclusion from this year's series of presidential debates. He has filed a lawsuit against the Commission on Presidential Debates and is arguing that the commission is throttling free speech and reinforcing the dominance of a two-party system which is unresponsive to ordinary Americans. While Perot makes some good points, an even better argument for including him in the debates is simply that his presence would make them a more entertaining spectacle...
...apparent willingness of Americans to disregard character in selecting a President speaks volumes about our values, or lack thereof. ROSS DAVIDSON Carmichael, California...
...Ross Perot did not already have an uphill battle, he chose a bearded vice-presidential nominee. It's been nearly 90 years since America has had a bewhiskered or stubbly-faced Vice President. Indiana Senator Charles Fairbanks served four years as Teddy Roosevelt's Veep. When he attempted to reclaim the office as Charles Evans Hughes' running mate, the two men lost the 1916 election by a whisker...