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...occasional bloodlust in his rhetoric, some of them offer the defense of poetic license. Rhetorical overkill is a professional hazard of Washington punditry, the argument goes, especially the twist-and-shout kind that Buchanan mastered on TV. To be heard above the noise on Crossfire, he has to talk tougher than he is. Buchanan's brother James says that's what explains the "Zulus" remark. "He was speaking off the top of his head. He didn't call them 'jungle bunnies' or something like that...
Democrats from colleges across New England held signs outside the hotel to show support for President Clinton. The president was challenged by 21 minor candidates but he expects a tougher fight in November...
...midweek, Dole recruited a small army of surrogates to take up cudgels against Forbes and became smoother on the trail. His ads got tougher, his speeches softer. A new Dole ad in New Hampshire features the state's popular, youthful Governor Steve Merrill, clad in green parka and walking across a snow-covered suburban yard, accusing Forbes of proposing a plan that would rob citizens of their cherished property-tax deduction. Meanwhile, Dole himself reserved his swipes for Bill Clinton and "the elites in charge" but ignored Steve Forbes. The furthest Dole would go was in Nashua, New Hampshire, where...
While Forbes spoke kindly of President Clinton's community policing program, he promised to take a tougher approach to law enforcement by adopting stiffer sentencing penalties and constructing more prisons...
...team and his campaign crew. His Senate speechwriter had offered a draft that lauded his legislative record and was generally mild in its assaults on the enemy. This was dumped as boring by campaign manager Reed. Campaign communications director Mari Maseng Will's draft was pitched much harder right, tougher on Clinton, aimed at Iowa and New Hampshire. The Senate staffers denounced it as a "full-throated attack" that Dole himself "winced at," they say. The single line that Senate Chief of Staff Sheila Burke and Co. found most over the top: "Ronald Reagan may have come from Hollywood...