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Senate Republican
minority leader Bob Dole
of Kansas presents a
formidable opponent for
any plan backed by the
Democratic President.
This was witnessed by his
big victory in sinking
Clinton's $12 billion jobs
bill this past summer. And
what of Senator Dole's
plans for his own
presidential run in 1996?
The Senator will be 73-
years-old when the next
presidential election rolls
around, and he has made
the usual disclaimers
about it being too early to
think about such things.
But he is already making
forays into the early
caucus and primary states.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg joins Late spring and early Janet Reno, a former
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Sandra Day O'Connor as summer floods hitting the Florida state attorney,
the second female Midwest states of became the first woman
Supreme Court Justice. As Missouri, Illinois, and attorney general. As the
a lawyer for the American Iowa caused billions of nation's head crime
Civil Liberties Union dollars in damage. Homes fighter, she confronts the
Women's Rights Project in were lost, fields were growing problems of
the 1970's, she was the swamped, and towns drugs, gangs, and
prime architect of the were submerged. As the violence. Through her
legal argument that the waters began to recede, "save the family"
Constitution requires people began digging out campaign, she has ■v V:.
equal treatment for men their mud-filled homes become a crusader for
and women. and clearing their cities. America's children.
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