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Netanyahu's image remains problematic. He concedes that during his tenure as Prime Minister he mishandled personal relations with adversaries and allies alike. His respected Finance Minister, Dan Meridor, said Netanyahu was untrustworthy; he tried to appoint a low-level legal crony as attorney general; and even before his election he had to admit to marital infidelities, after rumors circulated that a rival had a video of him in flagrante. Many Israelis say he thinks like an American--he studied in Boston and spends much time in the U.S. In 1999 he was implicated in a bribery scandal, though charges...
...editor of the newspaper Le Monde to dub him "the Resident of the Republic." Buffeted by allegations of funding scandals, the 69-year-old President has veered wildly across the political landscape and has been neutered in domestic policy since losing parliamentary elections in 1997. This forced him to appoint Lionel Jospin as Prime Minister at the head of a coalition government of socialists, communists and greens, and to wage a five-year guerrilla war against him ahead of the spring election. Voting for Chirac means no more than voting for an old campaigner...
...constitutional convention to propose an amendment to ban abortion and voted against state funding for family planning programs. Pickering’s nomination was rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, but his nomination is an indication of the type of judge Bush may later attempt to appoint to the Supreme Court. Secondly, Bush’s proposed budget is unequivocally hostile to reproductive rights. Bush included $33 million in abstinence-only sex education in his budget, plans to eliminate funds for the United Nations Population Fund and cut the USAID portion of the international family planning budget...
...year-end Party Congress. Having sold himself as a statesman, he risks tarnishing that image if relations with the world's only superpower plummet like a downed spy plane. "If Jiang can show that relations with the U.S. are in good shape, it will enable him to appoint more of his own men to the top positions," says Cheng Li, a political scientist at Hamilton College in New York State...
...list and loom large on his radar screen. Summers, a social scientist, may want someone with a hard science background to add depth to his proposals. If science-related initiatives are to be the cornerstone of the Summers administration, it would make sense for him to appoint a dean from the science section of the faculty...