06/11/99 - DETRIOT FREE PRESS - STEVEN THOMMA   BUSH HAS BIG SHOES TO FILL For Gov. George W. Bush of Texas, political life may never be better than it is right now.    He leads all rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, with more money, more backing from the party hierarchy and more support from the rank and file. Polls suggest the nomination, if not the presidency itself, is well within his grasp.    But first, Bush has to go out and campaign... Members of the media are not the only ones who will be watching Bush...   "He is being endorsed by people who've never met him and don't have the foggiest notion of where he stands on the issues," presidential candidate Pat Buchanan said.  ... So far, Bush has been reluctant to speak out on many national issues. For example, only this week he took a stand on President Bill Clinton's impeachment and trial. Bush was in favor of removing him from office, it turned out... 06/11/99 - AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW   LAMB ROAST AS CLINTON YIELDS TO PROTECTIONIST PUSH Australian lamb exporters are about to get a nasty taste of American trade policy at its worst...   an unmistakably protectionist wave has enveloped the Congress and the Clinton Administration.    The US is involved in trade skirmishes with most of its trading partners, on issues from steel to beef to magazines. And President Bill Clinton is expected to announce within days that he will introduce tariffs on Australian and New Zealand lamb...    It isn't just the trade deficit, approaching $US300 billion ($452 billion) a year, that is driving the protectionist push. It's the backlash from globalisation, in combination with a very weak President... The US International Trade Commission has judged that Australian and New Zealand lamb imports have grown so fast that they pose the threat of substantial injury to the industry, and all six ITC members have recommended tariffs or protection of some sort. Thirty-one senators, from farming States such as Montana, Idaho, the Dakotas, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, California and Wyoming, both Republican and Democrats, signed a letter urging the US Trade Representative, Charlene Barshefsky, to impose harsh tariffs on lamb imports. Some of the senators were ostensibly free traders, but they are up for election in 2000.    If the Clinton Administration were not so weak it would have resisted their demands. But if it does the right thing for some mountain State senators who want to help their local farmers, those senators might back the Administration on getting China into the World Trade Organisation. And let's not forget that the campaign of Al Gore, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination which is looking decidedly anaemic. To help him, the President's political advisers want to blunt the protectionist message of anti-free traders such as right-wing Republican populist presidential candidate Pat Buchanan. The idea is to be seen to be looking after the losers from global competition, and using every available legal mechanism to fight trade that hurts too much. Through all this the Democratic Party's traditional support base, the labour movement, is still suspicious of trade, and does not believe the evidence that trade creates jobs...   Australia is furious with the Clinton Administration for taking this approach to the US sheep industry's problems, but realistically, it has very limited leverage. It has threatened to bring a case to the WTO. This could embarrass the US, which is currently attacking Europe over not allowing America's genetically modified food and hormone-treated beef into its market... [WEBNOTE] - What more can I say than: GO PAT GO!!!!!!! 06/10/99 - ST. PETERSBURG TIMES - TIM NICKENS - Times Political Editor   CASH CRUNCH COMES EARLY FOR GOP HOPEFULS ... With George W. Bush poised to take his campaign on the road for the first time this weekend, other Republican presidential campaigns already are in danger of being left behind in the Texas governor's dust.     Lamar Alexander, who has been running for president for more than six years, laid off four top staffers in recent days. Dan Quayle accepted the resignations of two key fund-raisers. Elizabeth Dole and John McCain also are reportedly raising less money than they expected.     More than six months before the Iowa caucuses only two Republicans are flush with cash: Bush, who may raise a record $ 50-million, and multimillionaire Steve Forbes, who is writing his own checks and already has launched a television advertising campaign... It is not unusual for presidential candidates trailing in the opinion polls to experience a cash crunch. What's different this time, campaign advisers and fund-raisers say, is the timing.     The adjustments campaigns are making used to occur deeper into the race, with snow on the ground and dark winter days to match the mood. This time, there are still 11 days before the official start of summer in the year before the election... In an election where Republicans have no heir apparent, no elder statesman like Bob Dole, the GOP has created one in the eldest son of the former president. The Texas governor raised $ 7.6-million during the first three months of the year without attending the first fund-raiser...    In contrast, Alexander had hoped to raise roughly $ 7-million by now but is expected to report less than $ 2.5-million by the end of June. Despite Alexander's years of campaigning, Quayle's flurry of news releases and Pat Buchanan's broadsides on talk shows, Bush is the runaway front-runner for the Republican nomination before the race really starts.    The current edition of the conservative Weekly Standard features Bush dressed like a king with subjects kissing his feet. The headline: "The Anointed One." ... Republicans have lost two consecutive presidential elections to Bill Clinton after winning four out of the previous five, pointed out Charlie Cook, publisher of the non-partisan "Cook Political Report." He said mainstream, establishment Republicans are so hungry for a win they are eager to unite behind a popular candidate who has yet to be tested on the trail.     "The vast majority of big Republican donors are either in with Bush or keeping their powder dry," Cook said of the cash shortage other candidates are experiencing. "This is a drought. It is long and deep. If something doesn't happen, you are going to see some of them fade away." ... There are other reasons for the early hand-wringing over money.     Many states have moved up their primary elections in 2000 in an effort to gain influence and attention from the candidates. Candidates who do unexpectedly well in the Iowa caucuses or the New Hampshire primaries won't have as much time in February to capitalize on their early success and raise more money for primaries in bigger states such as California, New York and Florida... [WEBNOTE] 06/10/99 - THE CALGARY HERALD - Knight Ridder - Hugo Gurdon  REPUBLICAN HEIR APPARENT BEGINS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN The most hyped presidential candidacy in the history of U.S. politics will start on Saturday when George W. Bush steps on to the airport apron at Cedar Rapids, Iowa... The Iowa caucus next February is the first big test of candidates, and is quickly followed by primaries which will decide the two parties' nominees by the end of March... Before uttering a syllable on the stump, the Texas governor is five- to-four favourite to succeed U.S. President Bill Clinton and to sit at the desk from which his father, former president George Bush, was ousted in 1992.     Bush the Younger has emerged as what the Washington Post calls ''the hottest candidate the country has never seen.''     Now voters will have a chance to see why 114 of the 222 Republicans in the House of Representatives and 14 of the party's 55 Senators have already endorsed him as their candidate for the November 2000 election... " He is being endorsed by people who've never met him and don't have the foggiest notion of where he stands on the issues,'' presidential candidate Pat Buchanan said in an interview with Iowa radio reporters... His father prevaricated Wednesday, saying: ''Should he make the final decision, which I'm frankly confident he will make, I think he'd know why he wanted to be president.''     The candidate's mother, Barbara, was more straightforward. Her hope of avenging her husband's defeat rests with her son, and she said: ''If he doesn't run, I'll kill him." ... 06/09/99 - FOX NEWS - ASSOCIATED PRESS   IN IOWA, A CRUSH OF CANDIDATES It was barely dawn Tuesday, when commentator Pat Buchanan concluded the 2000 presidential election was fully underway.    Buchanan was motoring through the streets of Des Moines on his way to a television interview when he spotted a jogger. "It was just dawn and I saw a lonely figure running along the empty streets of Des Moines," Buchanan said. Moving closer, it became clear the jogger was no stranger, but was Republican presidential rival Lamar Alexander.     "I rolled down the window and said 'Lamar, I think you're overdoing it,' " said Buchanan, concluding that it is virtually impossible to avoid running into a presidential contender in Iowa, where leadoff precinct caucuses launch the nominating season. Alexander said his morning outings are more for mental fitness than physical exertion.   "I just run to clear my head," said Alexander... MORE FROM THE INTERNET BRIGADE NEWSWIRE...

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