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...appeal designed to tug heartstrings. But Baird's apologia did not play well in Peoria -- or the rest of America. Irate callers jammed the phone lines of radio and cable stations across the country, denouncing her tax dodging and calling on her to withdraw. The switchboard on Capitol Hill lit up as constituents weighed in with their representatives. In a single day, Senator Paul Simon's Washington office logged 1,000 calls. "In 18 years in the Senate," said Senator Patrick Leahy, "I had never seen so many telephone calls, spontaneously, in such a short period." Senator Nancy Kassebaum...
...tanks and setting it ablaze. Fortunately, most of the escaping oil quickly burned off or evaporated, calming fears of environmental damage to fishing waters and the coasts of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. By week's end emergency workers had secured the drifting 260,000-ton ship to a tug and had brought the blaze under partial control. It was the third major tanker accident in as many weeks...
...spilling oil. The tanker Braer, owned by a subsidiary of a U.S. firm, ran aground Tuesday after its engines failed during a storm. A few hours before the ship hit the rocks, helicopters took the crew off, so no one was aboard to secure a line to a rescue tug. As rough seas kept salvors from pumping off the remaining crude, the slick threatened to kill thousands of birds. The Braer's operator, Bergvall & Hudner, said its $700 million in insurance will cover damage claims...
...White House to keep everyone happy. "Clinton has rewarded the moderates and rewarded the liberals," said a member of the latter camp. "He isn't tipping his hand as yet." The prominence of From and his minions in Clinton's operation, however, suggests that one side in the tug-of-war is already winning some rope...
...tug-of-war over the chairman's gavel is merely a prelude to the fight over the 1996 nomination. Most party watchers expect Kemp and his fellow progressives to advance their newfangled agenda while wooing the hard right with promises of fealty on family values. With Buchanan, Kemp and possibly Bennett or Robertson crowding the right side of the field, Vice President Dan Quayle can afford to shift more toward the center. Quayle, who keeps a Bush- like foot in nearly all camps, has already begun to moderate his position on abortion, suggesting that Republicans should concentrate on restricting...