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With the presidential nomination decided, Sen. Bob Dole was counting on a Republican show of force in California Tuesday to help fend off Ross Perot and serve as a curtain-raiser to the contest in November when President Clinton is expected to win the state. On a weekend swing through California and Washington, which also votes Tuesday, Dole all but ignored his faded Republican challenger, commentator Pat Buchanan, focusing instead on the greater, long-range threats posed by Ross Perot and President Clinton. “It is my deepest fear that this administration is squandering an inheritance it does not value — undermining values it does not understand,” Dole said Monday, wrapping up his Western trip with an emotional homecoming to Russell, Kan.
