Word: camp
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Gore camp claims to have been stunned by Harris' rashness in refusing all recounts and not maintaining a pose of impartiality. Instead, she banked the fires in all three counties--and Gore's folks can't believe Bush let her do it. "They just totally blew her credibility," says a Gore adviser. "If they had been 10% less brazen, they'd be 50% better...
...week's end, the legal endgame was focused on two sets of lawsuits proceeding on parallel tracks. The Bush campaign had pinned its hopes on a federal challenge to hand counts that now seems to have sputtered to a halt. And the Gore camp was relying on the Florida state courts to force a reluctant Katherine Harris, the secretary of state, to accept votes from hand recounts that it hoped might provide its margin of victory...
...explained, his men had been tracking FARC guerrillas moving out of secret bases deep inside the Panamanian jungle. Last Saturday night a contingent of 300 FARC rebels attacked a Colombian army outpost in the Darien rain forest. Mortars screeched through the mist, and the dark jungle engulfing the army camp was suddenly lit by hundreds of blazing rebel guns. The Colombian army sergeant in charge and his 60 men faced annihilation. In the confusion and crashing grenade explosions, it took the FARC attackers a while to realize that they were suddenly being shot at from an unexpected corner...
...tricky posture. Monday, the Bush camp was denied the use of the official White House transition office and the $5.3 million that comes with the keys, and was forced to make noises about opening one of their own. Word was out that Colin Powell, Bush's presumptive secretary of state, felt it was too early for his name to be added to the transition list that now includes Dick Cheney as head of the transition and Andy Card as chief of staff. But like the upcoming Supreme Court hearing that Bush asked for and is now pretending to have forgotten...
...does he have? A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll making the rounds before the speech reported that 56 percent of Americans - including 36 percent of Gore supporters - say concede. Rest assured Gore is watching growing numbers like that, but he wasn't about to resist a quick scold of the Bush camp's impatience...