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- <title>
- Feb. 08, 1993: Southern Comfort
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 08, 1993 Cyberpunk
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- NATION, Page 16
- Southern Comfort
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Republicans elect a smooth conciliator as party chairman
- </p>
- <p> Out in the wilderness for only a few months, the Republican
- Party is sorely in need of a new Moses. After a tense five-way
- contest, a badly divided G.O.P. chose Haley Barbour as its
- national chairman, charging the portly Mississippian with the
- daunting task of bringing together moderates, conventional
- conservatives and a right wing fixated on "family values,"
- notably abortion.
- </p>
- <p> A committee member from Yazoo City, and a Washington
- lobbyist, Barbour, 45, was conservative enough to serve as a
- Reagan adviser but smooth enough to attract the support of
- country-club Republicans anxious to check the influence of the
- religious right, whose delegates favored former Missouri
- Governor John Ashcroft or party tactician Spencer Abraham.
- Rather than flock under ideological banners, however, most of
- the R.N.C. members avoided ideology. The loudest applause of the
- day came when Rich Bond, the G.O.P.'s retiring chairman, urged
- that the 1996 platform drop its strict antiabortion plank.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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