• Limbaugh To Leave Late-Night TV
• Poll Reaffirms Clinton's Lead
• Gore Says Yeltsin's OK
• Clinton, GOP Fight Over Smaller Deficit
• ADM Executives To Face Price-Fixing Charges

Limbaugh To Leave Late-Night TV

NEW YORK (AllPolitics, July 16) -- Frustrated that his syndicated TV show is mostly broadcast in the wee hours of the night, conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh will quit the show, according to a source who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "We're seeing an increase in the number of networks," Limbaugh told the Associated Press, "but...I've been pushed later and later and in the process lost a lot of potential audience." The TV show is carried by 234 stations, while Limbaugh's radio show is broadcast by 660 stations and reaches an estimated 25 million listeners. The last TV show will be produced Sept. 6.

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Poll Reaffirms Clinton's Lead

NEW YORK (AllPolitics, July 16) -- The latest national presidential poll shows the gender gap to be closing, but not because likely GOP nominee Robert Dole is successfully reaching out to women. A survey for the MSNBC cable network and Internet site shows Dole's standing among men has dropped 9 points from an NBC-Wall Street Journal poll three weeks ago. President Bill Clinton leads Dole by 29 points among women and by 24 points overall, according to the MSNBC poll. Clinton's backing has stayed the same at 54 percent of those polled, while Dole's support dropped 7 points to 30 percent. The MSNBC poll surveyed 804 registered voters and has a margin of sampling error of +/- 3.5 percentage points.

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Gore Says Yeltsin's OK

BARVIKHA, Russia (AllPolitics, July 16) -- After an hour-long meeting with Russian President Boris Yeltsin, U.S. Vice President Al Gore told reporters Yeltsin appeared to be "in good health." Concerns about the Russian leader's health resurfaced when Yeltsin, who has largely remained out of public view since the end of June, postponed Monday's meeting with Gore. Kremlin sources say Yeltsin is recovering from an attack of angina pectoris, a non-life threatening reduction of blood flow to the heart.

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Clinton, GOP Fight Over Smaller Deficit

WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, July 16) -- President Bill Clinton and Congressional Republicans are fighting over who deserves the credit for reports that the budget deficit will be $29 billion less than original predictions. White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta said Clinton and Congressional Democrats made the "tough choices and tough votes" that lowered the projected $146 billion deficit to $116.8 billion. But House Budget Committee chair John Kasich (R-Ohio) quickly responded it was Republican initiatives that brought the budget back under control. "For the past 18 months, the president has stood in the way of even greater deficit reduction, having consistently proposed more spending and having vetoed the first balanced budget in a generation," Kasich said.

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ADM Executives To Face Price-Fixing Charges

WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, July 16) -- Federal prosecutors will charge two executives of the Archer Daniels Midland Co. with price-fixing in connection with the food additive lysine, according to unnamed sources cited in The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. The indictments, which may be issued as early as September, come after a year-long anti-trust investigation into the company. ADM chair Dwayne Andreas, who has friends in both of the major political parties and is a major supporter of likely GOP nominee Robert Dole, does not face indictment, but his son Michael does. Prosecutors will also charge Terrance Wilson, head of ADM's corn processing division.