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...pull of the more activist wings of each party has left both parties incapable of finding and holding the political center. At one point George Bush had a 91% approval rating, but he still lost the presidency. Bill Clinton became President without a majority in 1992, and then his party suffered historic losses in the 1994 elections. The Republicans in Congress, only 71Ú2 months after their landslide victory, are now supported by only 34% of the public on their handling of budget issues in the Time/cnn poll. Observes Powell: "The American people are channel surfing. And you're going...
...school boards, there are signs that moderates, many of whom stayed home when the first wave of ultraconservatives marched into office three years ago, are now mobilizing themselves. "If you have a really active group [of moderate parents]," says Matt Freeman of People for the American Way, a liberal activist organization, "you can often beat these guys...
DIED. GORDON WILSON, 67, peace activist; of a heart attack; in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. In 1987 Wilson's daughter was killed by an I.R.A. bomb, and in a moving rejection of his country's bloody bouts of violence and retribution, he publicly forgave her murderers...
Chinese-born American human rights activist Harry Wu, facing a possible death sentence for exposing abuses in China's prison system, was finally allowed to meet with a U.S. official for the first time since he was detained June 19. Wu, an American citizen who spent 19 years in aChinese labor campbefore emigrating to the U.S. in 1985, was not allowed to discuss his case in the heavily-monitored, half-hour meeting with U.S. Consul General Arturo Macias at a jail in the central city of Wuhan. The arrest has single-handedly sentU.S.-Chinese relationsinto a tailspin, infuriating lawmakers...
Newtie isn't the only one in the Gingrich family with literary aspirations. Gay activist CANDACE GINGRICH, his half-sister, has retained a literary agent and plans to write her "kind of unique" life story. As for her half-brother's books, she says she doesn't plan to read them...