A party breaks up
The fireworks overhead were nothing compared with what happened on the floor. Without Ross Perot, the Reform Party has broken apart. On one side is Patrick Buchanan, who left the Republicans earlier this year after going pretty isolationist. On the other, alarmed by Mr Buchanan's view of the world, is John Hagelin, a former presidential candidate for the Natural Law Party, which espouses transcendental meditation.
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