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...Hampshire results suggested an emerging seriousness and impatience in American voters, a sense that they are groping into difficult political and moral territory, often well in advance of both the politicians and media. The usual American political apparatus seemed to be malfunctioning, defective -- incapable of bringing along plausible leaders, Presidents, as it once did. The party of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John Kennedy was fielding another B-team. So it seemed to many voters, who also thought that the Republicans had a President -- and Vice President -- of unusual weightlessness...
...Freedom of speech is the very essence of people's ability to express themselves, join with those sharing their views and influence the political and policy-making apparatus," Meese said, adding that he viewed freedom of the press as an important corollary to freedom of speech...
...huge as it was, the surveillance operation was a failure in the end. It never fully gauged the true depth of disaffection for the regime or predicted its collapse. By trying to know everything, the Stasi apparatus knew nothing. Barbel Bohley, an artist and organizer of the New Forum movement that led the popular rebellion against the communist regime in 1989, found the information in her dossier ludicrous. "I have never read so much boring nonsense," she said after viewing 25 folders, less than half her file. "If that was my life, then for heaven's sake what did they...
...system. In September 1990 he announced he favored the so-called 500-Day Plan for a sudden switch to a free-market system. But then he lost his nerve and reneged, opting for a "compromise" between dramatic change and another round of tentative tinkering with the gargantuan central-planning apparatus...
...summiteers also agreed to move toward a more unified foreign policy. This follows the divided stance of the E.C. during the gulf war and its indecision about whether to send peacekeeping troops to Yugoslavia. E.C. President Jacques Delors, who had branded the Community's foreign policy apparatus "organized schizophrenia," called for streamlined decision-making procedures. But members shrugged off pressure from France to adopt majority voting, yielding to Britain's insistence that a unanimous poll serve as the only basis for important initiatives...