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...splinter. On Wednesday morning he had taken a secret ballot of his members on whether to reopen the government. By 111 to 54 they had voted no. But those 54 votes told Gingrich that he was losing control of the House and would have to give up his best weapon in the budget war. And so, with eyes downcast and voice resolute, he recalled his own childhood as an Army brat, remembering what it was like to live in a family that always seemed to be stretching toward its next paycheck. And then came the clincher: ''It is morally wrong...
...treason from campaign rivals like Phil Gramm and Pat Buchanan. By Friday, when the House reversed course, Dole not only looked statesmanlike; he had also diminished Gingrich as a rival on his right and distanced himself from his party's extremists. At the same time, he had acquired a weapon to carry through the rest of the campaign against Clinton. Everywhere he goes for the next 10 months, he can make the case that he is the only one actually capable of balancing a budget...
...second, televised spot informs Iowa voters. The Indiana senator, who says he believes in Americans' rights to own a gun "for self-protection, to hunt and to collect," stresses that he was the only member of Congress running for the nomination to have opposed the 1994 assault weapons ban vetoed by President Clinton. The ad concludes: "There is no right to sweep a playground with an assault weapon...
...team members; at home, a special beeper sits on his nightstand. When a nuclear threat is received, Newby and his colleagues must assess it. At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory near San Francisco, nest has a computer filled with thousands of pages of everything publicly written about making a nuclear weapon: newspaper clips, magazine articles, reports in scientific journals, even passages from spy novels. The computer can quickly run a cross-check to see if the extortionist knows what he is talking about or has merely lifted his blackmail note from a Tom Clancy book...
...fitted with photographic equipment, are sent aloft to take shots of the city for detailed maps that can be used if intelligence sources narrow the search to a particular area or type of structure. Helicopters equipped with radiation detectors can sweep over the city as well, but a nuclear weapon gives off little telltale radiation and is nearly impossible to find from above a dense, urban area...