On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Nathan Newman wrote: > Clinton of course has history as President, as well as a history as an > anti-war protester, organizer for the McGovern campaign, and relatively > tough (especially for a Southerner) anti-corporate licymaker in his first > term as Governor in Arkansas. It was his defeat that made him such a > cautious suck-up to the business class--Dukakis had a similar move to the > Right from his first term as Governor in Massachusetts to his defeat then > more conservative policy in his comeback. I have a vague recollection that some Arkansas voters also held Clinton accountable for an incident of unrest at the state penitentiary that occurred during his first term and that some of the inmates were Cubans who arrived during the Mariel boatlift. If true, this may be an event that shaped the Clinton Administration's policy toward Cuban refugees. Steven Zahniser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
