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...Tsongas and ex-California Governor Jerry Brown, his lead could be insurmountable. The biggest threat to Clinton's momentum comes from a surprising source. In Michigan, union members who regard Clinton and Tsongas as hostile to organized labor have been flocking to Brown's anti- Establishment banner. Brown could siphon off enough votes from Clinton to slow him down, permitting Tsongas to fight on next month in New York and Pennsylvania...
...would a sitting President, assured of the Republican nomination, add such a personal touch to this formality? Ask Pat Buchanan, the polemicist turned candidate, whose aggressive effort to shift the G.O.P. rightward threatens to siphon off enough conservative votes to embarrass Bush at the outset of what could be a tough re-election bid. Buchanan "deserves the Christopher Columbus award," quips Democratic state chairman Chris Spirou, "because he forced Bush to discover New Hampshire...
What the moderates need most for their resistance effort is money. Vestal's movement has set up a scheme to undercut the $137 million annual headquarters budget and siphon funds into moderate causes. But so far only 140 congregations have responded to the effort; their projected donations of $4 million this year hardly threaten the Baptist money machine. Whatever the long-term threat in Atlanta this week, fundamentalist president Chapman insists, "I feel very optimistic...
...logic of putting both men on the ballot was based on the assumption that Hurd, a Tory moderate, and Major, a loyal Thatcherite, could together siphon off more votes from Heseltine than either man alone. By early last week the momentum began to swing to Major, who appealed to younger M.P.s, hard-core Thatcherites, many moderates and right-wingers who considered Heseltine a traitor for precipitating the worst party crisis in 15 years. Also working against Heseltine was the fact that some M.P.s considered the millionaire publisher too flamboyant to be Prime Minister...
...even the current oil run-up could have a substantial and damaging effect on the way Americans work, shop and spend their leisure time. Every $1-per- bbl. increase in the cost of crude oil acts like a tax to siphon income from consumers and companies. Laurence Meyer, a Washington University economist who runs his own forecasting firm in St. Louis, had predicted a recession even before the oil shock. If prices charged by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries reach $30 per bbl. in the fourth quarter, Meyer says, the GNP would decline a painful 3.6% during the period...