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...that way -- busily expanding production and calling back laid-off workers. Plants are humming along at 80% of capacity, up from an average of 75% over the past 20 years. U.S. automakers have recalled 41,000 workers so far in 1993. While Chrysler has just 200 workers still on furlough, Ford has begun limited hiring at several plants to help it roll out the 14 new models the company plans to introduce in the next two years...
...fairness when the president indicates that his friends are not accountable under the law. Bush's pardons were perhaps his final presidential act of elitism. After using Willie Horton to depict Michael Dukakis as soft on crime four years ago, Bush has released his buddies on a permanent furlough...
Gore too will probably join the fray. He predicts a "long, hard fight," and he proved in 1988 that he can give as good as he gets. In fact, it was Mr. Straight himself who first struck at the Massachusetts prison-furlough program, which the Republicans then spun into the infamous Willie Horton commercials. And now that the people who brought us Willie Horton are back with a new anti-Clinton ad campaign, this cycle's candidate is signaling clearly that he won't pull a Dukakis and roll over without a fight. Clinton told TIME he is "not surprised...
...uglier side of Quayle's mission begins to become apparent. One of Quayle's amazing but unlikable feats last week was metaphorically to transform old Willie Horton into a beautiful blond fortyish wasp has-it-all knockout. (Horton was the black murderer who raped a housewife while on furlough during the time that 1988 Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis was Governor of Massachusetts; the Bush campaign used Horton to ridicule Dukakis.) So in 1992, by Quayle's interesting subliminal design, Murphy carries at least some of Willie's message: mindless liberalism allied with black anarchy (ruined families, unwed mothers, crime, drugs...
...issued written instructions ordering his operatives to "stay out of the sleaze business," but the definition thing persists. "I don't know what's negative and what's not these days," says the man who views the famous Willie Horton TV ad as a fair examination of prison-furlough abuse...