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...want the country to understand this is not the kind of illness that can be treated quickly, but the President must be seen to be working the problem vigorously." It is all part of the larger theme, "Yeltsin is trying." Last week he ordered the country's army to abolish conscription by 2000 and, effective immediately, decreed that only soldiers who volunteer to go should be sent to battle zones such as Chechnya...
Today, as in the past, the academic racist appeals to those in the American public and legislature who want to implement a plan of racial segregation. In California, two scholars have led the crusade--recently taken up by Governor Pete Wilson--to abolish affirmative action in that state and in the nation. Politicians, who receive support from conservative think tanks, are running for office on platforms of redrawing federal and state congressional lines in order to decrease or obliterate Black and Latino voting power. They also advocate the dismantling of the "Great Society," claiming that its programs can not produce...
...speakers said they are willing to work with other groups to abolish the death penalty...
...simply to be genuine. His gimmicky campaign of plaid shirts and long walks has suffered not just from want of attention but also from an abundance of contradictions. He is yet another former Nixon staff member posing as an outsider, a man who boasts about his plans to abolish the Education Department he once headed, a man who rails against insiders but seems to have profited handsomely from being one; a man who complains of mudslinging but was the first in the field to use a negative ad, against Pete Wilson last summer. With his sudden prominence, he instantly faced...
...Washington off our backs, and us off our butts." If parents don't like their kids seeing trashy talk shows and R-rated movies on cable, he says, they shouldn't just blame Hollywood; they should "turn off the TV and read to your kids." He would abolish the Department of Education (a move he never mentioned when he was running the place) and return Medicaid, the health program for the poor and disabled, to the states. He wants welfare to be administered entirely by nonprofit community groups, with the help of a new $500 tax credit for charitable contributions...