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WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS ARE UNDER ORDERS TO SPEAK NO ILL of Ross Perot: no point in generating more TV sound bites. But by last week political strategist Paul Begala could no longer contain himself. Perot, said Begala, "will say anything to get attention. He is just one of those folks who, when he goes to a wedding, he wants to be the bride. When he goes to a funeral, he wants to be the corpse...
...strategist of Sunday's march, Mixner wanted to ensure that it would & not turn into an attack on the President, whatever his perceived shortcomings. Still, Mixner believes that gays must maintain pressure to counter the onslaught from the religious right. "When Clinton was elected," he says, "we were a fan club. We are not a fan club anymore. We are in an alliance that will not be comfortable at all times. We will hold our friend's feet to the fire." Like many gays, Mixner sees Clinton as offering more sympathy than empathy. They perceive a President who is repulsed...
Paradoxically, one source of friction with other countries has been lessened. Explains Peter Tasker, a strategist for the investment-banking firm Kleinwort, Benson International: "This is the first recession in Japan that is wholly homegrown. They can't blame the Arabs for an oil-price increase or the unions or the Americans...
...criticized the Clinton program's lack of cuts in a meeting chaired by Vice President Al Gore on Feb. 18 -- even though one of Shelby's most treasured pork projects, the $31 billion space station -- was left virtually untouched by Clinton's budget trimmers. "Inexcusable," said a steamed Clinton strategist. Two weeks ago, the empire struck back, shifting from Alabama to Texas a 90-person space- shuttle management team long protected by Shelby. Five days later, Shelby quietly joined 55 other Democrats and 10 Republicans and voted for the unemployment bill. "Mr. Shelby's vote was appreciated," said an Administration...
...Electric Power Co. argued that a coal tax would "burden the steel, auto, metalworking, chemical, plastics, paint, paper and primary manufacturing industries, which rely heavily on coal-fired electricity and carbon-based fuels." Such objections seem likely to doom the levy. "Forget the carbon tax," says a top Democratic strategist on Capitol Hill. "If you're looking at 1996 -- and they are at the White House -- that would cost them Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania...