MUCH ADO ABOUT McCURRY
Infuriated by White House spokesman Mike McCurry's comments on GOP Medicare reform, Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich have called for his removal. McCurry told reporters Thursday: "Eventually they [Republicans] would like to see the program die and go away. That is also what they would want to see happen to seniors, too, if you think about it." McCurry, who retracted the statement as soon as he made it, said today that President Clinton told him he was wrong to make the crack. "He frequently shoots off at the mouth and generally gets away with it," says TIME's J.F.O. McAllister. "This time, he realized he stepped over the line." SERIES GOES BACK TO ATLANTA:
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