Asia Watch: Another Ally Betrayed

...The third front of the Democratic attack on Gingrich is the ongoing Federal Elections Commission case, which stems from politically motivated charges first brought against Gingrich in 1990...

...Democrats and their allies in the press announced that this election would be a referendum on the Republican revolution, a preview of their strategy for 1996 to "morph" each and every Republican into the hated Gingrich...

...Bill Alexander of Arkansas filed a ten-count complaint with the ethics committee...

...We in the House simply do not pass a budget that doesn't get to balance in seven years...

...Outside I recognized a couple of the secret policemen I'd seen in Tehran...

...Bonior's only "supporting evidence" is the GOPAC documents already found to be worthless in making a case against Gingrich...

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...Instead the Thai government and the UN are using our funds to forcefully send our Hmong allies back to a dangerous fate in Laos...

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...Former IRS commissioner Donald Alexander has already reviewed the remaining issue and reported publicly in writing that the IRS requirements were fully satisfied...

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...Some reporters have hinted darkly at two close elections Gingrich won in 1990 and 1992, suggesting that bad press nationally might be enough to defeat him at home, just as former Speaker Tom Foley was defeated in 1994: This wishful thinking overlooks the unusual circumstances that led to those two close votes...

...The Democrats spent their entire allowable party expenditures in the Republican primary, and Ralph Nader's trial lawyers weighed in with an "independent" expenditure of more than $125,000...

...Gingrich faced Herman Clark in the Republican primary, and the Democratic Party led an effort to have Democrats cross over to vote for Clark in the Republican primary...

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...If the Newt haters have been unable to damage Gingrich with his constituents in the House and north Atlanta, they're still hoping that a new round of ethics charges and a Federal Elections Commission complaint might do him in...

...Bonior filed five ethics charges against Gingrich based on the FEC documents, but they are simple retreads of already discredited charges...

...The most recent attack comes from Rep...

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...What's overlooked is that Gingrich went on to win the '92 general election by a comfortable 58-42 percent, and that in 1994 he won the general election by 64-36...

...In fact, they still refer to it that way...

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...I lit a candle and said a prayer for my beloved...

...When Gingrich spoke to Republicans in the House and Senate and to Republican governors on December 15, he received three standing ovations...

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...Story after story had predicted beforehand that this race would be a referendum on Gingrich...

...When he met with those same advisers a year later, it was they who were somewhat shell-shocked after twelve months of unrelenting attacks and worrisome poll numbers showing Gingrich with very high "negatives...

...We passed through the House a budget and a seven-year plan guaranteeing a balanced budget...

...POLITICS by Grover G. Norquist The Chase In mid-December 1994, just one month after Republicans won control of Congress, Speaker-to-be Newt Gingrich met late into the evening with a few key advisers...

...Isfahan was long the capital of this country, and so prosperous it was known, at least to its egocentric residents, as "half of the world...

...We are now locked in a struggle with Clinton at the tactical level about the budget...

...Bonior—who owes his whip position to his mentor, former speaker Jim Wright— is continuing his effort to avenge Wright and the other two Democrats who fled Congress alongside him, Tony Coelho and Bill Gray, to avoid investigations of their finances...

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...CNN, in fact, provided no breaking reports of Campbell's landslide...

...GOPAC was organized in the 1970's to help elect state legislative candidates, and did not file with the FEC until 1991, when it decided to become involved in federal elections as well...

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...But this strategy has already been tried...

...He expressed some surprise at the intensity of the hostility of the establishment press to the Republican ascendancy and to him personally...

...Winning here would allow Democrats to nationalize the results, and frighten Republicans into treating Gingrich as a campaign liability in 1996...

...This attempt faltered on December 6,1995, when the House ethics committee unanimously dismissed sixty-four of the allegations, and asked to have a lawyer look at the remaining charge, a technical tax question...

...Apparently, "Important Commercial Person" service is for coming in, not for going out...

...The press played up the appointment of a "special counsel" on the tax question, incorrectly suggesting similarities to the appointment of a special prosecutor with wide-ranging investigative authority...

...A suffering Englishman standing nearby said presciently, "Think of how happy we'll be when the wheels are up...

...Moreover, even if efforts to defund the CPA make it through the Senate and House Conference Committee, President Clinton has promised to veto the legislation...

...His congressional base of support is stronger today than one year ago...

...Their opponents' middle name is Gingrich...

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...Whether you are driving through the canyons of a big city or in the trackless reaches of our wide-open spaces, you may get lost if you don't know where you're headed...

...Despite the acrimonious budget battle with Bill Clinton and new attacks on his ties to GOPAC, however, Gingrich himself was unfazed and confident...

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...This was once the famous Tehran Hilton, where Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor cavorted for the world's press twenty-five years ago...

...He spent every weekend there during the hectic first ten weeks of 1995 as the Contract was moving through the House, and his home base is secure...

...By carrying one of them as they ran from North Vietnamese fire, they saved the lives of both —but by the time the chopper came to evacuate the two Americans, sixty of the Hmong unit were dead...

...There are a dozen or so other Christian churches in this city of 1.5 million...

...Instead it chose to broadcast (repeatedly) the "news" that Jesse Jackson's son had won in the predominantly black Second District of Illinois, a seat the Democrats could not possibly have lost...

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...The motorbikes and motorcycles ride on the sidewalks at slow speed and also drive regularly the wrong way on one-way streets...

...Those charges, which were dropped fiveweeks before the election, are aimed at GOPAC, not Gingrich...

...The national Democratic Party was also making a trumped-up, last-minute complaint with the Federal Election Commission that was designed solely to win press coverage...

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...Democratic optimism was understandable: Mineta had held the seat for twenty-one years, Democrats had an eight-point edge in party registration, and George Bush had taken only 30 percent of the district's vote in 1992...

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...Despite the subpoena of more than 6,000 GOPAC documents, the FEC cannot point to any such direct expenditures and is now asking the judge to change the law retroactively...

...Meanwhile the presiding judge in the case has already ruled that the FEC cannot regulate political speech or activity unless money is spent in direct support of a candidate...

...The turnout of 7o,000 GOP primary voters — 14,0o0 more than voted in the 1992 Republican Bush-Buchanan presidential primary—was 55,000 more than those who voted in the Democratic primary that same day...

...Vang explained the extraordinarily high casualty rate: "When the Americans were in trouble, we Hmong made a path with our blood to save them...

...It is considered the embodiment of Islamic architecture and has many impressive buildings...

...The Clinton White House and the establishment media were hoping that bad polling numbers for Gingrich would be perceived negatively by other Republicans in the House, and that the unusual level of unity that made it possible to pass the Contract and the budget would begin to unravel...

...By summer, Alexander was telling people he would file 200 charges—and on October 25 he filed a second formal complaint...

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...Five days later the 236 members of the House Republican caucus voted overwhelmingly to support Gingrich in not reopening the government until the White House had agreed to a real seven-year budget...

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...Yet even though the ethics charges are dying as a legal matter, Bonior and the Democrats continue their personal attacks...

...Gingrich knows they are doing him no damage, and he also knows that every day the Dems spend gnawing on his leg is a day not spent making a case for themselves...

...We are exactly where we thought we would be one year ago, if everything went very well," he said...

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...Unlike other national pots, Newt Gingrich doesn't take his home district for granted...

...Gingrich defeated Democrat David Worley by only 974 votes...

...There was a sign outside a hotel that said, in large letters, "Down with U.S...

...They followed me into the bazaar...

...Gingrich won that one by 980 votes...

...In other countries there would be tanks in the streets and snipers on rooftops to prevent such a transfer of power...

...When Campbell won 59-36 on December 12, this strategy was quickly abandoned...

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...Unable to make its case in court, the FEC has released its subpoenaed documents to the press, hoping it will do to GOPAC what the law could not...

...As the flight approached the city of Isfahan, the pilot thanked all of us for flying Iran Air and closed by saying, "And God bless you...

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...The stakes were high, and the press attacks were sure to continue...

...Press reports to the contrary, Gingrich has lost no support among his caucus...

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...The first of four such attacks came on April n, 1989, when deputy Democratic whip Rep...

...My last night in Tehran I wandered through the Esteghlall Grand Hotel...

...Asia Watch (Continuedfrom page 59) tions and Human Rights Subcommittee, has introduced legislation to defund the CPA (which is requesting $30 million this year) if refugees are involuntarily returned to regimes from which they escaped...

...Working with the Senate and its more difficult rules we have passed a seven-year balanced budget plan with real numbers, honest scoring, and we avoided any major fight within the party or between the House and Senate...

...The Muslim government apparently leaves them alone, though some Christian clergymen have been jailed or harassed...

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...Ben Gilman declared, "The United Nations will not allow our Hmong allies living in camps in Thailand, and eligible under United States law to migrate here, to leave the camps...

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...On my wife's birthday, I went to a Catholic church in the Armenian section of the city...

...After the closing reception, I left for the Mehrabad airport and a Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt, then home...

...At the time of the 1990 election, as many as 8,000 Eastern Airlines employees in his district were on strike, and the vote was coming just on the heels of the Bush tax increase, which dropped the average Republican candidate by six percentage points...

...An air of rudeness, hostility, and aggression permeates...

...One adviser pointed out that in the United States people are killed every week over amounts as small as twenty dollars, and that as Speaker, Gingrich was threatening the Washington establishment's control over a $1.5 trillion federal budget...

...The airport was jammed when I arrived at 1:00 a.m...

...He then went on: "I don't know how we are going to win...

...But after the election not one mentioned the obvious: Gingrich had won the referendum...

...phrase of Ulysses S. Grant, "to fight it out on this line all winter if need be...

...An Australian who wandered away from a tour in Tehran told me he was stopped and searched on the street by plainclothes men...

...In the House debate on the Smith bill, Rep...

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...This hope was dealt a severe blow when former congressman Tom Campbell won a landslide victory over Democrat Jerry Estruth in the special election in California's Fifteenth District to replace Democrat Norm Mineta, who retired last year to become a lobbyist for the defense industry...

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...cli4 Politics (Continued from page 57) whip obsessed with Newt...

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...The shower of attacks has not damaged Gingrich in his home district, either...

...Another child-soldier from the war, Vang Kai, tells of how his unit of 100 men and boys rescued two American pilots in 1968...

...Meanwhile, brave allies like Yee Lee are forcibly returned to Laos...

...Someone said to me that the SAVAK under the Shah was more efficient, because its members were smarter, but the leaders of this government believe that "quantity makes up for quality...

...According to Ed Bethune, the former Republican congressman from Arkansas who served as Gingrich's personal counsel during those attacks, Alexander's allegations were "dismissed or summarily resolved by the committee which was assisted in its review by an outside counsel, Richard J. Phelan of Chicago...

...The Democrats forged a second attack with sixty-five ethics charges against Gingrich...

...They seemed to be popping up like mushrooms in their cheap suits and their scru Don Johnson beards, carrying walkie-talkies in one hand and working "worry beads" in the other...

...What would the mullahs think of boozy Dick and zaftig Liz, who couldn't keep their hands off each other in public...

...Phelanis the same outside counsel who found real, not imagined, problems with Speaker Jim Wright...

...But although the Smith Amendment passed, the Senate version of the foreign aid bill does not address the CPA flaws or the need to stop the forced repatriation of the Hmong...

...David Bonior of Michigan, the Democratic (Continued on page 78) Know which way you are headed—every time, with...

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...The FEC is now arguing that GOPAC should have filed as a federal political action committee prior to 1991, which strikes GOPAC as an attempt by the FEC to expand its jurisdiction...

...We had a group of challengers in and I told them I have one piece of advice," said Martin Frost (D-Tex...

...In February 1994 Marc Kaufman documented in the Philadelphia Inquirer a deceitful campaign by entrenched State Department and UNHCR personnel to discredit Hmong American leaders and Hmong refugees—and to manipulate Congressional investigations...

...since 1967 averhillr 185 Berry St., San Francisco, CA 94107 The American Spectator • February 1996 57 A Week in Ayatollahland (Continued from page 36) Once we were airborne, the pilot sent this greeting over the loudspeaker: "In the name of Allah, the magnificent and most compassionate, this is your captain speaking...

...Leaving Iran is a hassle...

...56 February 1996 • The American Spectator Two years later, a redistricting plan specifically designed by Georgia's Democratic house speaker forced Gingrich into the newly created Sixth District north of the Atlanta airport...