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...blue, green and white track suit, the pale, puffy-faced President sat slumped in a chair next to Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin. In a slurred speech, Yeltsin explained that he "wasn't feeling too bad" and considered himself "out of danger." But the public-relations ploy did little to allay suspicions about the true state of the President's health. For many Russians, it recalled the early 1980s, when the successive deaths of Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko were all preceded by assurances from the Kremlin that they were in fine fettle...
...part, Dole has tried to allay conservatives' doubts about his convictions with lunges this spring to the right on gun control and his attack on Hollywood. He reminds the fervent budget cutters that back in 1985 he engineered the only across-the-board cut of federal programs (including a freeze on Social Security) that the Senate has ever passed-only to be undercut by Ronald Reagan. Last week Dole tried to push through one of his pet projects: easing regulations on business, a measure that is designed to appeal to conservative hard-liners. But when it comes to meat inspections...
Anti-democratic ranters would run afoul of such a rule, on account of a belief that "the masses are asses." Most of the people who don't vote shouldn't vote, they argue. Perhaps forced awareness as described above would allay some of these fears, but the fundamental premise for removing decisions from the majority of the citizenry is still flawed...
...probably knows so much about his lifeand a lot which might allay a lot of concernswhich people have, but...confidentiality goes tothe grave," she added...
...American Eagle commuter plane crashed on its approach to Raleigh-Durham International Airport in rainy and foggy weather, killing 15 of the 20 people aboard. The fatal accident was the second in two months for the shaken airline. Trying to allay mounting passenger fears, Transportation Secretary Federico Pena announced that approval of toughened safety standards for commuter flights would be speeded up, but the Federal Aviation Administration said it could take a year to put the new rules in place...