Show PARADE’S SPECIAL INTELLIGENCE REPORT1 Because of volume of mail received Parade regrets ft cannot answer queries Who Will Challenge Clinton in 1996? many Americana about his proposals critics attacking his foreign policy and questions about his old business deals Bill Clinton is perceived as vulnerable in 1996 It is no surprise then that Republicans already are making plans for the next Presidential election Here are the GOP’s top contenders: With Bob Dole The Senate Minority Leader is the § No 1 candidate at the moment in part because of his visibility as spokesman for the GOP Dole reportedly is trying to tone down his sarcastic negative image to convince party leaders he can win Watch for him to be more pleasant in the months to come At 70 age is a factor and this is probably Dole's last shot Jack Kemp h The former football star Congressman and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development has been active in preparing for a Presidential bid Kemp 58 is a favorite of GOP realists who think he can beat Clinton with broad-base- d appeal I ike most Americans he’s an economic conservative but a social Liberal i Colin Powell §The former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the man many OOP insiders consider most likely to win Clinton They think against as a war 56 Powell General hae the beet Prandentiai image He also could cut deeply into Clinton’s black vote while still carrying the white vote Political pros think he’d be a skilled campaigner but so far Powell has kept his Presidential aspirations a mystery Powell also has carefully concealed his party affiliation but Republicans think he’s theirs because of his views and the fact that he was appointed to top defense posts by two Republican Presidents Dick Cheney GOP insiders see the former Secretary of Defense 53 as an appealing moderate But candidate Health questions his home state of Wyoming is hardly a power base and Cheney’s heart-bvpas- s surgery in 1988 raises questions about the stamina he’d need to run for President I Dan Quayle People close to the former President say he wants the top job and his strategy is to go into the primaries — where traditionally only the most committed of Americans (15 or fewer) turn out— as the candidate of the Vice far right If conservatives turn out for Quayle 47 he’ll have a real shot at the nomination As chief fundraiser for the Republicans in the Bush White House and an advocate for big corporations and the wealthy Quayle could bring in more money than any other GOP candidate On the other hand the negative public image he endured during his four years as Vice President when he was daily fodder for comedians may be enough to keep Quayle out of the picture in 1996 Lolita looking lovely in the new film Intersection (I) and — after she dies and conies back in her 20s — in Younger and Younger with Donald Sutherland The Many Ages of Lolita Davidovich Lolita Davidovich to pot? That’s the anyone who sees Younger and Younger will ask when she appears Until halfway through the film no one would believe that the downtrodden wife of Donald Sutherland a compulsive womanizer is played by the same actress who starred as a statuesque stripper in 1989 in Blaze opposite Paul Newman In fact it took a heavy Has suit and four hours a day in the makeup room to turn the beauty into a dowdy matron The results are frighteningly foam-rubb- er 32-year-- realistic Wearing that rubber suit in temperatures up to 105° probably helped the actress to convey the wife’s irritability The premise of the film is that after you die you grow younger and younger until you reach the age at which you liked yourself best For the wife that’s in her 20s Younger and Younger opens later this year but fans can see a youthful Davidovich opposite Richard Gere in the new film Intersection It’s about a man with a mistress This time the lovely Lolita lets someone else (Sharon Stone?) play the downtrodden wife Smokey Bear Turns 50 In World War n shells from a sub landed near a area in Southern California raising fears of a forest fire The Agriculture Department’s Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council teamed up to design a fire-preventi- campaign In 1944 Smokey Bear was created Today 95 of adults and 85 of children aged 8 to 12 recognize Smokey s massage “Only YOU can prevent forest fires” The number of accidental wildfires caused by humans has been reduced by half since Smokey began even though 10 times as many people visit our forests today as in the '40s Still the destructive fires in Southern California last fall remind us that the message is as important as it was in 1944 An exhibit of Smokey posters comic books songs and other memorabilia is on view at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta until March 14 The exhibit will travel to Dallas Los Angeles New York and then Washington DC where Smokey Bear's official SOth birthday will be marked on Aug 9 with a day long celebration on the Mall r r r |