Portsmouth Herald
RAN 2/15/96, Pg. A1
By Steve Haberman 
Herald Staff
   PORTSMOUTH - Kansas Sen. Bob Dole yesterday broke a promise he made 
during a recent visit to the Seacoast by running an attack ad against the man
considered his closest rival in the New Hampshire Republican primary,
political commentator Pat Buchanan.
   ``We're running positive ads in the last week,'' Dole told Celltech
Biologics employee Dominic Calandara during a visit to the company's facility
at the Pease International Tradeport on Feb. 8. Calandara had told Dole he
was tired of the kind of negative advertising New Jersey publisher Steve
Forbes had been airing in New Hampshire.
   Yesterday, however, the Dole campaign began airing an ad labeling Buchanan
as ``too extreme'' and unable to beat President Clinton in the general
election.
   In support of those claims, the Dole ad cited quotes Buchanan allegedly
made, one dating back to 1983.
   The first, that ``women are simply not endowed by nature with the measure
of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed,'' the Dole campaign
attributed to one of Buchanan's syndicated columns that appeared in the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat in November 1983.
   The second quote, allegedly from a Buchanan column that appeared in the
Conservative Chronicle dated April 4, 1994, advocated the arming of South
Korea, Japan and Taiwan with nuclear weapons. According to the Dole campaign,
Buchanan wrote: ``If the British and French nuclear arsenals helped deter
Moscow in the Cold War, why 
should not small nuclear arsenals in South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Australia
help deter the neighborhood bullies of East Asia who reside in Pyongyang and
Beijing?''
   Immediately after the Dole ad began airing, the senator's national
campaign chairman, New Hampshire Gov. Steve Merrill, jumped on the bandwagon.
``He's getting kind of out there,'' Merrill said of Buchanan during an
interview on WMUR-TV.
   Sources at the Buchanan campaign had no comment on the new Dole ad
yesterday. They would only say that the political commentator planned to hold
a press conference and shoot a new commercial at an as-yet-undetermined
location today at 10:30 a.m. ``You'll have his answer then,'' a campaign
spokesman said.
   Several calls placed to Dole's Concord office and his campaign
headquarters in Washington were note returned.
   In contrast to Dole's decision to ``go negative'' during the last week
before the New Hampshire primary, New Jersey publisher Steve Forbes, who
finished fourth in the Iowa caucuses Monday and is seen as losing ground in
recent New Hampshire polls, toned down his advertising. Many Iowa voters
voiced displeasure with Forbes' negative advertising in that state.
   Forbes' most recent New Hampshire ads target the current Washington
bureaucracy but no individual specifically. He also has begun to talk about
other issues, such as his plan to establish medical savings accounts in order
to save the Medicare system.