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Fight over Foster intensifies
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Striking back yesterday in the row over President Clinton's surgeon general nominee, Vice President Al Gore called Dr. Henry Foster Jr. the victim of an antibortion campaign to intimidate Congress.
The Associated Press
"We're not going to let the extremists win, "he declared.
But critics of the Tennessee obstetrician showed no sign of easing up.
In Washington, White House press secretary Mike McCurry acknowledged, "We have our work cut out for us."
"I think he's going to be very hard to confirm," House Speaker Newt Gingrich said in Georgia. I think it's going to be a very embarrassing set of hearings."
But McCurry also joined in the tougher rhetoric the White House has begun using. He said that extremists in the right-to-life movement "have now hooked Republicans and Congress by the nose and they're dragging them around."
President Clinton left the strong talk to his officials, saying only that the controversy was not distracting
Senate hearings are expected next month with a confirmation vote to follow.
him from other work and that he expected Foster to be confirmed.
Dispatching Gore to Tennessee was the latest in an aggressive set of White House moves to save the troubled nomination. While most nominees are held from public view until their confirmation hearings, Foster has defended himself in a medical school speech, a newspaper article and a national television interview.
"Anybody who wants to see fewer abortions in this country ought to applaud the nomination of Dr. Henry Foster," said Gore, a former Tennessee senator. "He has devoted his life ... to making abortion less necessary."
Fewer unwanted pregnancies would mean fewer abortions, Gore said.
On Monday, sitting elbow-to-elbow with Foster in a cramped low-income apartment, Gore stepped up the White House campaign to emphasize the doctor's efforts to reduce teenage pregnancy among inner-city youths. The apartment houses Foster's "I Have a Future" program that teaches self-esteem and urges youths to abstain from sex.
The remarks were clearly aimed at anti-abortion groups rallying against the nomination — and the lawmakers who listen to them. The White House hopes to label any senator voting against Foster as an opponent of legalized abortions.
"There are people in this country who want to criminalize a woman's right to choose and they are now trying to make Dr. Foster a victim ... in order to make an ideological, political point and win on behalf of the extremists," Gore said.
"We are not going to let the extremists defeat this man," he said.
Foster had little to say, promising to defend himself at his confirmation hearing. "People have a right to speak," he said of his critics. "And I have a right to speak."
Asked for his position on abortion, Foster said, "Safe, legal and rare."
Foster has said he performed 39 abortions and supervised a drug trial in which 55 more women ended their pregnancies after moving to Tennessee in the 1970s.
Abortion still sparks GOP debate
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—Three politicians who have been considered possible candidates for the Republican presidential nomination say no one issue, such as support of abortion rights, should disqualify a person from a place on the GOP ticket.
"I don't think litmus tests are appropriate," said Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., a moderate rate who is considering a run for the 1996 nomination. "If we start being guided by specific groups all over the spectrum, heaven help us," he said Sunday on CBS"Face the Nation."
Lugar's sentiments were echoed, to varying degrees, by Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas, an announced candidate, and former Vice President Dan Quayle, who last week said he would not run for the 1996 Republican nomination.
Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition, who warned that evangelical Christians and pro-life Catholics would not support a GOP ticket where either the presidential or vice presidential nominee supported a woman's right to an abortion.
The issue was raised last week by
Another possible GOP candidate, Massachusetts Gov. William Weld, said it was intellectually dishonest for conservatives to advocate less government "while keeping a foot on individual liberty."
Already on record as opposing Reed's remark is Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., an abortion rights supporter and another likely 1996 presidential contender. "The Republican Party will not be blackmailed by any special interest group," Specter said.
Reed's remarks were aimed clearly at 1996 front runner Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, who has mentioned several pro-choice governors, including Weld, Pete Wilson of California
and Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey, as possible running mates.
Gramm, the most conservative of those seeking the nomination, told ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley" that his running mate would have to share his conservative views, but he was not going to define any one issue that would exclude a person from being considered.
He said that while pro-life positions would remain in the Republican platform, "we're going to have to define our vision broadly so people on both sides of the issue can consider themselves Republicans."
Quayle, speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press," said: "I don't buy into this idea that you're going to apply a litmus test on one issue for the president or vice president." He noted that in 1980 the GOP had a ticket on which Ronald Reagan was pro-life and George Bush, at the time, was prochoice.
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Walking down hallways, wanting to be your friend. You can't offer us a drink,and shut the door again. They've taken a title that's divided them from the floor. They work amongst you,hoping you'll knock on their door.
They want to get to know you and be a part of the crowd, But their identity's revealed when your stereo's too loud. By enforcing the rules, you think they're all shrews, But, if the truth be told, it hurts them more than you.
They've taken on the job, and the job must be done. Sometimes it gets dirty, sometimes it's fun. Please understand them as they try to understand you. They're not mean, they're just doing what they have to do.
Sometimes they get frustrated and feel it's unfair. But they don't quit because for all of you they care. So next time you see them, wish them a nice day For their names are irrelevant, just greet them today. Niki Long, Watson Hall RA Syracuse University
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