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...losers: Alexander and Dan Quayle. Alexander spent more time in-state than any other candidate and ended up with only 1,428 votes to show for it. Quayle's eighth-place showing left him below even no-hope Republican pundit Alan Keyes, but his campaign manager gamely promised to stay in, if not 'til the last dog dies, then at least until the polls close in New Hampshire...
...been charged with anything as a result of this latest incident by the state of Connecticut," Strollo said...
...first-alternative status, especially if Bush comes out with something the press deems disappointing. For Dan Quayle and Gary Bauer, it?s a bid for the remaining attentions of the religious right. For Lamar Alexander, who?s down to the change in his couch after concentrating on the Hawkeye State, a good showing could be a reprieve from bankruptcy, and a poor one likely a death blow. John McCain, meanwhile, skipped the event completely, calling it a "scam," and in the run-up to the vote it?s not hard to see why an avatar of campaign finance reform would...
...drive Islamic insurgents out of Dagestan within two weeks, Russian reinforcements pouring into the region amid intensified fighting Friday suggest a longer and more brutal conflict. Back in Moscow, there?s widespread speculation that President Boris Yeltsin will use the Dagestan fighting as a pretext to declare a state of emergency -? which would allow him to cling to power by canceling December?s parliamentary elections and next summer?s presidential poll. "It won?t necessarily happen, but it?s a very serious possibility," says TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich. "He was on the verge of doing it when the Chechnya...
Yeltsin on Friday asked the Duma, the Russian parliament, not only to approve his appointee, intelligence chief Vladimir Putin, as prime minister, but also to approve a new law simplifying procedures for declaring a state of emergency. "The situation in the North Caucasus shows that this law is essential," a Yeltsin spokesman said. Putin can significantly boost his political prestige by swiftly resolving the Dagestan crisis. But if it drags out into another bloody war, it will ruin the election chances of Yeltsin?s anointed heir -? and that may, in turn, tempt the president to avoid the election altogether...