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...link between chocolate and marijuana: I chew, but I never swallow. GAIL A. REYNOLDS Dade City, Florida Via E-mail...
Saying Clinton stole the G.O.P.'s positions misses the point. He stole their issues and refinished them with his own less severe, and therefore more acceptable, gloss. Even welfare reform was made easier to swallow for the Democrats' more liberal adherents when the President swore he would "fix" the bill's toughest commands in a second term...
...moment last week, two traits of Bob Dole the lawmaker came to the rescue of Bob Dole the candidate--the ability to swallow your pride and to make peace with your past. To arrive at the astonishing choice of Jack Kemp as his running mate, a man who has spent a good part of his political career spearing Bob Dole, required both. Dole admitted as much in a Thursday-night phone call to Mississippi Senator Trent Lott, his successor as majority leader and a good friend of Kemp's. If Kemp was the one, Dole told Lott, it would...
...mention their weapons, made him think arguing would be imprudent. He ran into other people forced to retreat by the armed men--a Boy Scout troop. After the hunter's call, agent Wall drove out to Tonto. Near an abandoned mine, he found a crater almost big enough to swallow a car. It was recent. Someone had been using powerful explosives...
Communicating in code--Clinton was called the Governor of California, Yeltsin the Governor of Texas--the Americans sought Morris' help. They had earlier worked together to script Clinton's summit meeting with Yeltsin in mid-April. The main goal then was to have Clinton swallow hard and say nothing as Yeltsin lectured him about Russia's great-power prerogatives. "The idea was to have Yeltsin stand up to the West, just like the Communists insisted they would do if Zyuganov won," says a Clinton Administration official. "By having Yeltsin posture during that summit without Clinton's getting bent...