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...Gingrich and party chief Haley Barbour are so edgy that they have talked about creating some kind of partywide structure to coordinate message, research and communications between the House, the Senate, the campaign and the party. They know the failures are costing the G.O.P. dearly. One official says top party fund raisers who produced $50,000 in the 1992 election cycle are currently ponying up as little as $5,000. Moneymen who once could produce $2 million in soft money now say they are too busy with other things. "That's troublesome," said a top party official. "That has people...
...discontent in a presidential-election year, made a response that was uncharacteristically swift and characteristically disproportionate. Senator Bob Dole, first off the mark, proposed in a letter to President Clinton that the 1993 federal gasoline-tax increase of 4.3 cents per gal. be repealed, an action that Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested Congress could accomplish by Memorial Day. Pointedly noting that there had been no Republican support for that 1993 tax increase, Dole declared on the Senate floor, "We believe, with the skyrocketing prices of gasoline, jet fuel and other fuels, that the most certain way to give consumers relief...
...photographs of Bosnian refugees. Capa, himself a great war photographer, once said, "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." He would have appreciated not only Suau and Turnley's you-are-there photos but also the very up-close shots of Newt Gingrich that won Bentley a POY first place in the news-picture-story category. For months Bentley, who these days gives TIME readers close proximity to Bob Dole, had unparalleled access to the House Speaker. "We're honored to be working with the best magazine photojournalists in the business," says TIME picture editor...
...Newt Gingrich a punk-rock fan, particularly of Theme Song, a tune by the band Too Much Joy? As the story goes, Gingrich heard the single played among G.O.P. staff members, then last month allegedly sent fan letters to the irreverent musicians (once tried and acquitted of obscenity charges), raving that they "had captured the entire essence of our 1994 campaign in a single line: 'To create, you must destroy.'" The band's promoters used the letters to help publicize its new album. Last week Gingrich's office claimed the letters were a hoax, despite being on the Speaker...
SPEAKER NEWT GINGRICH Aimless between the rock of a resurgent White House and the hard place of G.O.P. freshmen...