Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dole is looking ahead to the fall campaign. At a waterfront rally in Tampa, Dole told supporters "Let me say as the front-runner and maybe the presumptive nominee . . . I think it's time now to bring our party together and start to focus on our real political target, Bill Clinton." With no one claiming the mantle of outsider, a race between Clinton and Dole means that the election is likely to be fought in Washington. For Dole, Congress will provide one way stake out differences between himself and President Clinton. "Dole has made it very clear that he will...
...scared the bejeezus out of Dole before Iowa; in fact, Dole campaign manager Scott Reed and Forbes' manager Bill Dal Col suddenly found common cause again, since according to tracking polls many of those who supported Forbes were turning to Alexander. The Dole team quarreled about whom to target. Some said it should be Buchanan, who draws much of his support from places the others cannot go. Others pointed to Alexander, whose surprising third-place finish in Iowa gave him an instant platform and a claim to having the best chance of bringing Clinton down in the fall. Though Buchanan...
...extreme," the Dole said. "It is a race between hope and fear. It's about freedom and it's about intolerance, which I will not tolerate." While Dole on the stump takes Buchanan to task, National Political correspondent Michael Duffy says that Lamar Alexander is the real target. "It's important now to pay attention to what Dole does, not what he says. Dole's strategy is to attack Buchanan in public, and attack Alexander in his ads. Buchanan's base is small enough that it will take care of itself. It's Alexander that Dole is really worried about...
LESLEE "HONEY" BUHLER ALEXANDER Target of whispering campaign that she supports a G.O.P. taboo--abortion rights
ATHENS: The United States apparently stands to pay a penalty for its diplomatic handiwork in bringing a recent Greek-Turkish standoff to an end. Friday, police blamed the Greek nationalist terror group November 17 for a missile attack on the U.S. Embassy in Athens that barely missed its target. "Until now no organization has claimed responsibility," the anti-terrorism department said in a statement. "But the action and the material used point directly to November 17." November 17 is the only Greek guerrilla group to have used antitank missiles. TIME's Anthee Carassavas reports that the leftist movement it supports...