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...been demanding that foreign-owned financial companies draft plans to sell 51% of their assets to Zimbabweans. When AIG resisted, U.S. State Department officials helped start negotiations on the dispute last spring. But the company abruptly quit the talks, U.S. officials say, and pressed friends in Congress to slash aid to Zimbabwe--$23.3 million this year--by more than half unless it repealed its law. Over State Department protests that programs like AIDS prevention would be affected, D'Amato threatened to add the language to an appropriations bill. Zimbabwe backed down. A D'Amato spokeswoman says he is proud...
...politicians, McCrery flirted with the idea of running for the Senate seat Bennett Johnston is giving up. He opted instead for the security of a sure congressional victory--which he now has. He will return to the House to begin two more fiscally conservative years, trying to lower taxes, slash the budget and cut the deficit...
After a brief stint in the state legislature, Newinski is using some innovative methods to run for Congress. His lawn signs, for instance, are decorated with opponent Bruce Vento's name and a red slash, with the caption 20 years is too much. For his part, Newinski says he will fight tax hikes, work to get more prisons built and institute inmate work programs where wages earned go toward restitution for victims...
...this summer's Republican National Convention, Bob Dole, the Republican presidential nominee, attacked the Democrat-favoring teachers unions for impeding education reform. In retaliation, the Democrats harped on Republican attempts to slash funding for education. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D.-Mass.) went so far as to label Dole's acceptance address as "the first anti-teacher, anti-education speech ever delivered by a presidential nominee of either major party...
...stood before a group of senior citizens in Des Moines, Iowa, recently, Richard Gephardt was reminded that their cheers were at best a halfhearted embrace. The House Democratic leader had come to Iowa to stump for congressional candidates and to rail against Newt Gingrich for attempting to slash Medicare spending. The Republicans had so bungled their mandate and had pushed such an extreme agenda, Gephardt said, that Democrats should be given another chance. Which made sense to Arlyn Hodson. "We'll see you in the Speaker's seat!" the 66-year-old retired postal worker and Air Force veteran shouted...