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Members of the Progressive Undergraduate Council Coalition, or PUCC, have led a large bloc of delegates that is wary of accepting money from PepsiCo, whose overseas investments support a military government in Burma...
...Reed ceded to Governor Pete Wilson--Dole's former opponent in the race--greater influence over the Dole campaign in the state. The Governor will get to handpick the state's delegate slate to the convention in San Diego, something that would potentially permit Wilson to control an enormous bloc of votes should no candidate--or someone such as Forbes--turn up at the convention with a majority of delegates...
MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE: As the GOP candidates head into the final weekend before the New Hampshire primary, only one thing is clear: none has yet captured the imaginations of a large bloc of voters. In the wake of Thursday night's televised debate, tracking polls show the candidates in much the same position they have been in all week: Bob Dole and Pat Buchanan locked in a dead heat for first, with Steve Forbes pushing hard just to charge past Lamar Alexander into third. "The debate in Manchester was an event of diminishing returns," TIME's Michael Duffy reports from...
...their attempt to rescind the 100,000-new-cops provision in his 1994 crime bill. In the White House version, municipalities get the money only if they use it to hire new officers and use them in community-policing programs. Republicans want to send that money instead in bloc grants to states to use as they see fit. Last month the President vetoed the appropriations bill that would have distributed his police money that way. "I don't tell all these folks how to deploy the police," said Clinton, "or what they should...
...party-preference vote; Vladimir Zhirinovsky's ultranationalist Liberal Democratic Party came in a surprising second, with only 11%, about half its 1993 level. Altogether, the Communists were allocated 157 of the Duma's 450 seats; Our Home Is Russia, the party supporting President Boris Yeltsin, forms the next largest bloc, with only 55 seats. His Duma success in hand, Zyuganov is bent on winning the presidency next June, either for himself or for a popular anti-reform Communist candidate. If he succeeds, the current effort to reform and modernize Russia could be choked off in the grip of reimposed central...