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Subject: POLITICS=By Howard Kurtz and Ann Devroy=NARAL Ads Ask Voters To Consider
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 92 04:30:23 EST
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POLITICS=By Howard Kurtz and Ann Devroy=NARAL Ads Ask Voters To
Consider Candidates' Abortion Rights Stance<

No presidential candidate has raised the abortion question in his
advertising, but the National Abortion Rights Action League
(NARAL) is about to inject the issue into the campaign.

The group is about to begin airing a 15-second ad on CNN, narrat-
ed by actor Dustin Hoffman.  "A single flickering flame - one
Supreme Court justice - all that stands between us and the dark-
ness," Hoffman says as the camera focuses on a candle.  "America
is one justice away from losing the right to choose."

Although the ad would appear aimed at defeating President Bush -
and is produced by Bill Clinton's media firm, Greer, Margolis,
Mitchell, Grunwald - NARAL spokeswoman Loretta Ucelli said the
spot "is not candidate-specific. We believe it helps pro-choice
candidates up and down the line."

NARAL is airing spots against Sens. Alfonse M. D'Amato (R-N.Y.)
and Robert Kasten (R-Wis.), Rep. Ron Marlenee (R-Mont.) and
Colorado Senate candidate Terry Considine (R). The New York ad,
for example, calls D'Amato "hopelessly out of touch" and "hope-
lessly anti-choice."

The Democratic National Committee, meanwhile, is sounding the
"one justice away" theme in a radio ad. It calls the Republican
platform position on abortion "frightening" because it would
"make abortion illegal even if a woman is raped, even if she's a
victim of incest. Even if her life is in danger. Sound extreme?
That's because right-wing fanatics like Pat Robertson helped
write it."

The National Right to Life Committee did not respond to requests
for comment.<

<

Conservatives Plan Early Wake< Nothing like waiting for the body
to get cold.

Some of the conservatives President Bush courted so avidly the
past four years have planned his funeral for Oct. 30, three days
before what they foresee as the president's certain loss on Nov.
3.

In a letter to conservatives around town, L. Brent Bozell III of
the Conservative Victory Committee; Burton Pines, late of Heri-
tage and now of the National Center for Public Policy Research,
and Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress political action committee
have called a meeting on Oct. 30 "to plan the future of our move-
ment" in the wake of Bush's defeat.

The one-page letter to "fellow conservatives," opens up on a
stark note: "Barring a miracle, Bill Clinton will be elected
President on Nov. 3." It attacks the "Bush forces" for causing
this "disaster" and trying to blame conservatives for it. It says
the Republican Party "is in tatters," and its treasury is empty.
It says it is up to them to pick up the pieces and "unite to meet
this challenge."

A conservative inside the administration said if Bush loses, he
anticipates "a dozen meetings like that" on all sides of the GOP
spectrum to erupt with Republicans poised to engage in the inter-
nal backstabbing, bloodletting, recrimination and fingerpointing
that Democrats have after their presidential losses the past de-
cade.< 02:11 10-273C9999-----

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