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...cautious, as Prokhanov explains it, ''Zyuganov is the buffer, the go-between for all sides. All these political trends seem as if they're struggling with each other, but the idea of compromise is ripening within them. They need Zyuganov, and Zyuganov needs them. Having received Russia falling apart in his hands, he wants to be the one who puts it back together. Russia and Zyuganov have found each other...
...assassinated Gandhi in 1948 and that it was Hindu nationalists who touched off the worst anti-Muslim rioting in decades when they demolished a 16th century mosque at Ayodhya in 1992. There is real fear that a B.J.P. government could shatter India's secular tradition and tear its society apart...
...Prime Minister: H.D. Deve Gowda, chief minister of the southern state of Karnataka, who was chosen because of his relative obscurity and presumed inoffensiveness to all the power brokers. If he gets in, the coalition that made him, having achieved its one common aim, is likely to break apart. And that could mean Indian voters will soon be lining up at the polls again...
Into this furor comes Taylor, erstwhile political reporter for the Washington Post, who apart from general civic-mindedness had his own reasons for taking up this crusade. It was he who in 1987 asked presidential candidate Gary Hart whether he had ever committed adultery, thereby changing forever the rules about probing the private lives of public figures. "There's no question that it prompted a whole lot of soul-searching in me," Taylor says...
...beginning it was a joke," he told Time Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. But now Nastase is addressing the campaign with the full force of his misanthropic charm."I'm 35 years ahead of these people--just my mentality is enough. Who do they think they are?" Apart from honesty, he has few plans. "My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything...