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Donors were especially reluctant to commit to Quayle for fear he could never win the general election. Several advisers had urged him to run instead for Indiana Governor in 1996. On the Sunday before Quayle withdrew, Goodin faxed him a long memo on campaign strategy. ``That memo gave him a lot to think about,'' says Goodin. ``If he was going to make a move on fund raising, he had to move fast.'' At that point, says Goodin, Quayle had not held a single fund raiser. ``One of the options clearly was dropping out of the race.'' Quayle later told...
Daunted, perhaps, by critics brandishing the words witch-hunt and McCarthyism, Senate Commerce Committee chairman Larry Pressler withdrew portions of a questionnaire he had sent to National Public Radio asking, among other things, about the ethnicity and possible political leanings of employees. Pressler, a foe of federal financing of public broadcasting, said he had merely wanted to get a fuller picture of the organization...
...lingering bitterness over their nation's role in World War II, Japanese are disappointed but not surprised that U.S. veterans' groups have forced the downscaling of a controversial exhibition commemorating the end of the conflict. After months of heated debate, officials of Washington's Smithsonian Institution last week withdrew plans to display artifacts and photos of the devastation caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Instead visitors will see the fuselage of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress plane that flew the Hiroshima mission, and a videotape of its crew. While Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama called...
...bright notes do not mean that most peasants welcomed the face-off between the guerrillas and the army. For many it has brought harsh treatment from the occupying forces. In San Andres Larrainzar, one of the rebel- infiltrated towns where the army withdrew its troops last week, residents consider both sides equally repressive. ``We just want to live in peace,'' says Miguel Lopez Gomez, an elder in the local church who wears the traditional wool tunic of the Tzotzil Indians. ``We want to work, pray, feed our families. We don't want any confrontations here...
...their first taste of what may be months of isolation. Scrambling to contain the damage, defense lawyer Johnnie Cochran Jr. complained to reporters outside the courtroom about "a tabloid prosecution" that took its cues from the best seller by Nicole's friend Faye Resnick. One day later, prosecutors temporarily withdrew 18 of the 62 items, including Nicole's narrative, which the defense belittled as the work of a woman marshaling her case in a divorce dispute. Though that went far to make the prosecution's presentation seem like a pitch to the headlines, Clark's team insists...