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...Sunday in the campaign fall of 1996, Barry Goldwater turned to his friend Bob Dole and in a few choice words summed up both the Goldwater legacy and its current relevance to the GOP power structure. "We're the new liberals of the Republican party," Goldwater said. "Can you imagine that...
...80th-birthday celebration was televised. His wife Barbara stayed close. Friends and luminaries from across the generations paid their respects. Bruce Springsteen showed up, singing Angel Eyes as one Jersey boy to another. Bob Dylan performed his own song, Restless Farewell, and said, looking down from the stage at Sinatra, "Happy birthday, Mr. Frank." It was homage of a high order. The room was heavy with talent that night, but Sinatra contented himself with showing his appreciation by applauding them all. Not so many years before, he would have led them. Showed them all how the Chairman does...
Dobson is now boosting former Representative Bob Dornan, the loudest, loosest cannon in all the right wing, who is running again for the California seat he has yet to concede he lost in 1996. If in conservative Nebraska the new family value seems to be tolerance, let's see if Newt goes to California to help...
JAKARTA: How's Habibie doing? The new Indonesian president's cabinet appointments -- seen as the first test of Suharto's sucessor and his ability to survive -- drew a lukewarm response when they were unveiled here Friday morning. Out: Suharto golf buddy Mohammed "Bob" Hasan, as well as the former president's extremely unpopular daughter Tutut. Still in: Foreign Minister Ali Alatas, Economic Minister Ginanjar Kartasasmita. TIME Jakarta correspondent Terry McCarthy rates Habibie's cabinet a C-minus: "It's only halfway there," he says. "There's a lot of academics, and a few minor cronies. It wasn't brilliantly done...
...particularly sanguine. "He has a long history of exactly the type of vast, expensive white elephant projects that Indonesia needs to start trimming," says Branegan. But so far Habibie is making the right noises: He's dumped Suharto's eldest daughter from his cabinet, along with Mohamad "Bob" Hasan, one of Indonesia's richest men and a golfing buddy of the former president, and has pledged to follow the IMF program to the letter...