VERBATIM
"[Ross Perot] is one of a kind, and to me, a very good friend. But I want Bob Dole to be President of the United States." --James Stockdale, Perot's 1992 running mate, in the San Francisco Chronicle
"He's made his own bed. He's basically a man without a community now." --Johnnie Cochran, on former rival and best-selling author Christopher Darden
"When he gets his salary he puts it in his breast pocket, and since I iron his suits, I take it. If the salary is not in his pocket, he may have spent it on holiday or birthday presents. I never ask." --Naina Yeltsin, on husband Boris, President of Russia
"I see no real reason why it should be in Germany at this moment." --Peter Bull of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, sniffing at a claim that a death mask residing in Darmstadt is the only authentic image of the Bard of Avon
WINNERS & LOSERS
THE BUDGET BALLET
[WINNERS]
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON A sweet victory, plus $400 million for his national service program, long a G.O.P. bete noire
REPRESENTATIVE CHRIS SMITH Stalwart anti-abortionist gets cuts he sought in aid to overseas family-planning programs
SENATOR MARK HATFIELD Once: the doghouse for anti-balanced budget vote. Now: the spotlight as budget negotiator
[LOSERS]
SPEAKER NEWT GINGRICH Aimless between the rock of a resurgent White House and the hard place of G.O.P. freshmen
REPRESENTATIVE ROBERT DORNAN His wildly unpopular effort to oust HIV-positive military troops is ousted from budget accord
SENATOR TED STEVENS Wins bitter battle for increased logging in Alaska, but Clinton wins right to waive it. He will.
EUREKA!
With earthquakes, riots, recession and residents fleeing en masse, the past few years have been tough for the Golden State. But now there's some good news: after a sluggish slog through 2% and 1% growth in the early '90's, the nation's most populous state is also among the top ten with the fastest growing incomes.
1995 per capita income: $23,699 Increase from 1994: 6% Rank: #10
FAREWELL TO LAND MINES?
Land mines could go the way of mustard gas--at least for U.S. forces--starting in 1999 if a new, highly restrictive policy on the buried bombs is endorsed as expected this week by the Pentagon's regional commanders. The move has been spurred by a worldwide humanitarian campaign for a global ban on such weapons, which kill or injure 500 people a week, including many children. A U.S. ban seems certain to be enacted, though opponents are still arguing over details. Possible exceptions to any blanket prohibition on American use of mines include their deployment in the Korean Demilitarized Zone or in the event of a Persian Gulf war. Pentagon officials, having already backed away from a 2010 deadline for ending most mine use as being too late, want the ban to take effect in 2001. But the White House wants to perpetuate a yearlong ban on U.S. antipersonnel land-mine use, pushed through Congress last year by Senator Pat Leahy and set to take place in 1999. Says an Administration official: "If we can live without mines in 1999, we can live without them forever."
WITH DEFENDERS LIKE THESE...