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...right tried, with only limited success, to make gambling a moral issue in the presidential race. On the stump, Pat Buchanan routinely declares that "gambling should return to the swamp whence it came." Ralph Reed, executive director of the Christian Coalition, showed up at a recent press conference to launch Tom Grey's Washington office. "Gambling is a cancer on the body politic, destroying families, stealing food from the mouths of children, turning wives into widows," he said, noting that in 1994 the Republican Party accepted more than $1 million in gaming-industry funds. Without specifically mentioning Senator Bob Dole...
...IFOR mission will certainly applaud whatever role U.S. troops undertake in guarding the war crime tribunal investigators." While this may be a first step in U.S. involvement in arresting indicted war criminals, Calabresi says any arrests are still a long way off. "It is significantly more complicated to launch an arrest operation than to provide security," Calabresi says. "In the past, IFOR has said it is unwilling to engage in those types of operations. That is the type of operation that caused trouble in Somalia, so people are nervous about undertaking them here...
...said he has not seriously thought about choosing a running mate. He expects to wait until the GOP convention in August to make his choice. Dole is under pressure from Pat Buchanan to pick a pro-life candidate. Both Whitman and Powell are pro-choice. Buchanan has threatened to launch an independent run for the White House if the Republican ticket and platform are not anti-abortion. Whitman's announcement leaves a quartet of Midwest governors as the leading vice- presidential contenders. Illinois' Jim Edgar, Michigan's John Engler, Ohio's George Voinovich and Wisconsin's Tommy Thompson all played...
...candidates." Chiang reports that Taiwanese law stipulates that if any candidate is killed or disabled, the elections must be canceled. Taiwanese television reported today that three suspected "free-agents" who have recently entered the county are being tracked down. Their whereabouts are still unknown. Meanwhile, China continues to launch mock air and sea attacks near outlying islands. The U.S. has sent the aircraft carrier USS Independence and other warships to patrol the international waters off Taiwan to deter Beijing from further military action...
...York are big, critical and expensive, and Dole can't afford to fight it out in both places. Under the law, he is prohibited from raising more money for the primaries, but his delegate slates are not. In each of New York's congressional districts, Dole delegates can launch their own miniature campaigns, buying ads with tag lines like "Paid for by John Smith, a delegate pledged to Bob Dole." Many district delegates are themselves officeholders, such as members of Congress, which means they are allowed to dip into their own campaign funds to pay for buttons, bumper stickers, signs...