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Show WMmrt Edward tries to keep his girlfriend out of spotlight f oedgUgcKoI By WALTER R. MEARS AP Special Correspondent ' f LONDON Ferpe has been cast aside. Diana's soon to follow. Now it's Sophie's turn in the spotlight - girl; Sophie Rhys-Jonfriend of Queen Elizabeth's youngest child. Prince Edward could be the next Wife of Windsor. It's a scary prospect for a -class suburban working girl following in the footsteps of the royal highnesses who lost their storybook; marriages and were frozen out by The Firm, as the flueen calls her family. But 31. and Edward insist on taking a different road to romance than the one followed by Princes Diaries and Andrew, who became engaged a few months after meeting their future wives. ; Sophie met Edward. 32, three ears she was y ago on the job aide working as a for an event he attended. Their relationship developed discreetly, despite intense public interest. Sometime in the last 18 months, they decided to live together in Edward's suite of rooms. Without fanfare, Sophie became the first live-ilover in the history of Buckingham Palace. I The two have since then repeatedly let down the media by failing to announce their engagement. It is widely believed that the momentous event might occur this summer, once the queen has disposed of Fergie and Diana. But last week. Edward, who feels that relentless media barrages torpedoed his brothers' marriages, snapped at an interviewer w ho dared to ask him about an engagement. Sophie has had problems with the media in recent weeks. It was reported earlier this month that she had been hired part time as a consultant for a London firm. Hollander Communications, which would pay her a top salary in Britain. $75,000 The firm immediately denied that it would be trading on her roy- - fTV V . A v-- "" t WASHLNGTON I y ; middle- - - . ? V Rhys-Jone- s. r r l al connections. yj, ? f- V i ' ' - . vs. j It '' ' ' f t,i ground. APPtwo Tornado handiwork n ations - v' . ns public-rel- ' ; ! In alpha- betical or political pecking order, D, for Dole, comes before G. for Gingrich. But not when Democrats are talking. They prefer it the other way around, seeking to capitalize on voter misgivings about the Republican Congress and especially the speaker of the House. Even" Newt Gingrich acknowledges the sagging polls right now. "Sure." he conceded in a television interview. But he said those attitudes will change as Congress does its work and Republican positions become clear. It is an odd interval in the presidential campaign in which Sen. Bob Dole, the majority leader, is the guaranteed GOP nominee for the White House. No one in that post has run against an incumbent president before. Dole is having his own problems in the dual role, taking setbacks on health care legislation, for example, and in the maneuvering over an increase in the minimum wage, an issue on which Democrats have gained es rn Pw, Utah Twgn Af ! ; public-relatio- THE DAILY HERALD. - 1 By ELLEN TIK5POSKY New York DaBy News ': Aerl U,lf worker cuts away at a grain bin at the Bement Grain Co. in Milmine, ill., earlier this week. The town was hit by a tornado last week. The 200,000-bushgrain bin was 10 percent full when a A el tornado picked H up and crushed it. The polls show him trailing President Clinton, whose campaign has nearly five times the bankroll available to Dole for the four months before they are formally nominated. That's because n Clinton was unopposed for and did not have to use up his budget in the presidential renom-inatio- cmM&6 real flihie servatives, his negative ratinj among voters in general is fat higher than Dole's, according to the pollsters. He also is seen a extreme, exactly the label the Qiof ton campaign wants attached to the Republican Congress. Gingrich said in a. CNN inter So the setting would seem right for a campaign aimed solely at Dole, the other major party name on the Nov. 5 ballot for president. But Democratic strategy this spring is to run against Gingrich, too. try ing to capitalize on the attitudes reflected by polls showing voter When Vice President Al Gore goes en cammissions, hs j paign end political Conbeers down on "The Gingrich-Dol- e fund-raisi- ng i gress." iew that he does not think that is! going to hurt the Dole ticket in the fall. "People will learn that w voted to cut taxes, that we voted to balance the budget, that we voted to reform welfare with a work that Bill Clinton emphasis, etoed." Gingrich said. The speaker, who was the face and the voice of the Republican after they won Congress for the? first time in four decades, has kept his profile and his voice a bit lower this year. He took his name ouk discontent with Congress, and on negative ratings of the speaker. When Vice President Al Gore goes on campaign and political missions, he bears down on "The Gingrich-Dol- e Congress." It is almost a slogan. And always in (hat sequence. Gore used it 10 times in a speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, prompting one to ask him whether he meant Gingrich-Dole as the name of the fund-raisin- v g Republican nominee. He answered with a quip. "Al Gore did not intend to change the majority leader's name in any way." the vice president said. "It is axiomatic that in the Congress of the United States, the speaker of the House is the senior official. ... And therefore, the appellation 'Gingrich-Dol- e Congress' is merely accurate, objective and descrip- tive." Also purposeful. While grich has a solid base among of presidential speculation late iri 1995. and declared himself a team plaver and Dole's junior partner a$ the Kansas senator piled up hi nominating majority. At a Monday night gathering of" big donors to his political action committee for maintaining GOR control of Congress. Gingrichf warned against believing early polls, reminding the group of who was "President Dukakis 19 (points) ahead" in 1988. Gincon- - epuskfeaims Eieep up atttacEt on abortion WASHINGTON (AP) Republicans are keeping up their attack on President Clinton's veto of an bill, but Democrats say the GOP's broader target this election year is the Supreme Court's decision legalizing abortion. House Democrats boycotted a hearing Monday at which Rep. Charles Canady. chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, declared that Clinton was "hiding behind" the 1973 Roe vs. Wade ruling when he vetoed the bill that aborwould have banned certain anti-aborti- a., late-ter- tions. Canady m said Clinton "claims that the Constitution requires Congress to allow -birth abortion." He and others at the hearing strongly disagreed w ith that idea. Witnesses included Gianna Jessen. who said she has cerebral palsy as a result of a "botched" abortion when her e mother w as 7 12 months pregnant. partial- teen-ag- chairman of the Rep. Henry Hyde. full Judiciary Committee, said of her testimony. "I have seen somebody come back from the jaws of helL" Sharp rhetoric on both sides had marked previous subcommittee hearings on late-terabortions. But there were no such fireworks on Monday, since the five Democrat R-ll- l.. m members were absent. The Republicans "really are aiming at Roe v s. Wade," Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the panel's senior Democrat, said in a telephone interview. "This is a way to send a signal to people who believe abortion should be illegal in all cases." Another Democratic member. Rep. Patricia Schroeder of Colorado, issued a statement accusing Republicans of using the hearing as part of their strategy "to undermine the public's consistent and overwhelming support for Roe vs. Wade." "Their master plan ... culminates in the November election, when, after months of a WW xU U U To they cried: (wsir ft which we replied: cwfv anti-choi- anti-aborti- ToyOtS Big Sale this weekend veto public education campaign funded by the Christian Coalition and the U.S. Catholic Conference ... Republicans wilC use this issue to elect enough members oC the House and Senate" to overturn the higtf court ruling. Schroeder said. Frank and Schroeder said the Democrats; plan to exercise their right under Houst; rules to call witnesses at another hearing on; the subject later. 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