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...G.O.P. has long charged that the Democrats and the AFL-CIO must have coordinated their efforts in 1996 as the union shaped its $35 million campaign attacking individual Republican candidates. But the G.O.P. has never had much proof. Instead, new material in the hands of Senator Fred Thompson's investigating committee raises questions about whether groups friendly to his party knew where to target their ads and what message...
...Carl Lindner two weeks before the election. "Keep up the good work," she wrote Norquist. Norquist did not return a telephone call seeking comment. An R.N.C. spokesman said the party never dictated the use of money given to Norquist's group; Dole, meanwhile, has volunteered to answer questions from Thompson's committee this week...
...Reported by Ursula Sautter/Bonn and Dick Thompson and Karen Tumulty/Washington
...suppose I first noticed this profusion when first I inscribed a six-digit post-office box number into my book, at almost exactly the same time as ZIP codes (which arrived on our shores only in 1963, to cries of "governmental harassment" from Hunter S. Thompson) began more insistently including four extra digits and a dash. Suddenly, the 213 area code for Los Angeles had sprouted seven alternatives, and French phone numbers were 10 digits long, and my friends were stockpiling spouses' names upon their own. Here in Japan, my three-digit postal code spawned two extra digits, and even...
Reps. Timothy J. Toomey Jr. and Alvin E. Thompson voted in favor of the bill, while Rep. Alice K. Wolf, a former mayor of Cambridge, voted against...