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...Hampshire last February, when the airwaves were filled with talk of Gennifer Flowers and draft records, Clinton proved that he was that rare Timex-watch candidate, who could "take a licking but keep on ticking." Now he has sailed through the primaries, averted new scandals and stands on the cusp of the Democratic nomination. Rather than savoring that triumph, Clinton must now confront the highest hurdle of all: he must reach into himself and find a new way to convince the voters that he has the vision, the verve and the vitality to lead a troubled nation...
...only strategic-defense site permitted by the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty. If that agreement can be renegotiated with the Russians, congressional SDI-niks hope to expand Grand Forks into a $35 billion nationwide network of 700 interceptors. But a second leak last week could chill those plans: a draft Pentagon report now concludes that even the proposed national-defense site at Grand Forks would violate the ABM treaty. And that, says Federation of American Scientists space policy director John Pike, is what all the urgency is really about. "They're trying to get rid of the ABM treaty before...
Ross Perot is not the sort of politician who would pick a running mate from, say, New Hampshire just to bring geographical balance to the ticket. He'd rather draft a can-do hero. Insiders say Colin Powell has been on his short list. But Perot's greatest ticket-building efforts so far, according to one report, have been spent trying to woo Desert Storm commander NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF. Frustrated voters would be likely to cheer Stormin' Norman as just the sort of guy who could help get things done in Washington. But Schwarzkopf, who reportedly has turned down Perot...
Some of Clinton's high school contemporaries recall him as disgustingly responsible, always trying to impress his elders. The draft letter he wrote from Oxford after his enlistment problems were over looks like a bid for the ROTC man's respect. Sometimes Bill could be more adult than adults: when his mother, a free spirit who still loves the racetrack, a kind of Arkie Auntie Mame, took him to nightclubs to listen to jazz, he was offended by the smoke and the drinking...
Wolf adds that although the city has not officially endorsed 8.1D, the final draft of the Bridge Design committee's new plan should be approved by the city and the state within the next year...