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...this scenario. One calls for kick starting a late entry by jumping into caucus states, which have no filing deadlines. Thus Gephardt, if he goes, could demonstrate early foot by scoring in the March 3 caucuses in Washington State, where he would have the powerful support of House Speaker Thomas Foley, and then bagging most of the 77 delegates to be chosen a week later in Missouri. The party faithful now favor Clinton, but if he seems to be limping badly by March 10, they could switch to native son Gephardt. Some of Gephardt's House colleagues who are likely...
...didn't get much help from Democrats in nearby Washington, D.C., where the House speaker yesterday mistakenly called Tsongas "Senator Dukakis...
After a surprise endorsement by House Speaker Charles F. Flaherty (D-Cambridge) who wholeheartedly supported the bill, the House's Health Care committee passed the needle exchange bill without opposition at a hearing on February...
Unfortunately, not all analyses of America's problems are as sophisticated as Kunihiro's. When Yoshio Sakurauchi, the Speaker of the Lower House of the Diet, caused a furor in the U.S. two weeks ago by saying that the "root of America's ((trade)) problem lies in the inferior quality of American labor," he was reflecting a condescension toward Americans that many Japanese share...
Some Japanese politicians and newspapers have become more open in their contempt for America -- or what they consider American self-indulgence, moral squalor and indiscipline. Yoshio Sakurauchi, the Speaker of the Lower House of the Diet, called American workers lazy and illiterate; the U.S., he said, was becoming Japan's subcontractor. The remarks came just after George Bush's trip to Tokyo with the heads of the American car manufacturers, an excursion that left an impression of weakness and whining...