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28 May - 3 June 1998
Issue No.379
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Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich

By George Bahgory

Newt Gingrich never fails to remind me of a gingerbread man: eyes like two raisins pressed into the dough, a thin, malleable mouth and fleshy jowls. One of Israel's staunchest supporters, he has recently been speaking in lavish praise of its most right-wing policies. Here I have given him a checked sports jacket, like a used-car salesman.