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<title>
Nov. 02, 1992: Grapevine
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Nov. 02, 1992 Bill Clinton's Long March
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
GRAPEVINE, Page 11
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<p>By JOHN GREENWALD
</p>
<p> Republican Blame Game
</p>
<p> Even as President Bush fought for his political life last
week, the G.O.P. was dissolving into fratricidal strife. In
conversations with reporters aboard Bush's campaign train,
moderate Republicans and White House aides fingered
conservatives PATRICK BUCHANAN, Jack Kemp and Bill Bennett for
causing the President's political problems. Outraged
conservatives struck back the same day. "All three men are
crisscrossing the country attempting to save the Bush campaign
. . . whose spokesmen are attacking them," right-wing activist
Brent Bozell complained in a letter to White House chief of
staff James Baker. But even before the blame game started,
Bozell and fellow activists had privately invited top
conservatives to meet late this week to plot the movement's
recovery from a Bush defeat.
</p>
<p> Japan's Fears About Clinton
</p>
<p> Many Japanese officials and industrialists know Bill
Clinton from his trade visits to Tokyo on behalf of Arkansas and
consider him, in the words of a senior diplomat, "relatively
sensible on trade -- especially for a Democrat." But the
Japanese are worried that CLINTON'S CHINA POLICY, which he
indicates will focus on human rights, might isolate Beijing.
That could put Japan's Chinese investments at risk and disrupt
trade between the two Asian countries.
</p>
<p> California, Here We Come
</p>
<p> Want a preview of how fiercely insurance companies might
battle Bill Clinton's health-care proposals? Look at the way
national insurers are pouring cash into California to defeat
PROPOSITION 166, which would require all employers to provide
health coverage for workers. Fearing that medical costs could
billow under the plan, insurance firms with headquarters outside
the state have put up more than 80% of the $2.3 million that
opponents have raised to defeat it. The companies also fear that
Clinton's proposal for a government-run program for employees
not covered at work could lead to federal control of health
insurance. Frets one executive about the Clinton plan: "It's the
camel's nose under the tent."
</p>
<p> Woman of the House
</p>
<p> Voters are not the only ones who want to throw the bums
out. Departing members of Congress can't leave fast enough for
House Speaker Tom Foley's wife Heather, who serves as her
husband's unpaid chief of staff. With more than 120 new faces
expected next year, HEATHER FOLEY has angered members who lost
primary elections or who plan to retire by ordering them to
clean out their desks fast. She is worried that the House
telephone system cannot handle calls for newcomers and
old-timers alike.
</p>
<p> Spy vs. Spy
</p>
<p> The exchange spooked CIA officials who have long suspected
that the Soviet Union had a spy in the agency during the cold
war. Speaking to an American delegation in Moscow recently, a
Russian intelligence officer revealed intimate knowledge of a
1974 mission in which the U.S. salvage ship GLOMAR EXPLORER
raised a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine in the central Pacific.
American experts said such knowledge could only have come from
a classified film of the supersecret operation. The still
unanswered question: How did Moscow get the film?
</p>
<p> CAMPAIGN QUIZ
</p>
<p> Q The whirlwind round of debates produced such memorable
one-liners as "I'm all ears" (Ross Perot) and "If I make a
mistake, I admit it" (George Bush). Which candidates made these
less-often-repeated statements?
</p>
<p> A "You can read my plan ... I will not raise taxes on the
middle class to pay for these programs."
</p>
<p> B "I do not intend to spend one minute of one day thinking
about re-election."
</p>
<p> C "Remember the question: `Are you better off?' "
</p>
<p> D "Nobody's ever criticized me for not having strong
beliefs."
</p>
<p> A
</p>
<p> A Bill Clinton
</p>
<p> B Ross Perot
</p>
<p> C George Bush
</p>
<p> D Dan Quayle
</p>
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