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ROSS PEROT PITCHES HIMSELF AS A MAN OF THE PEOPLE, WITH the people helping him, in true grass-roots fashion, to get on the ballot. But as Perot gathers strength, the little people are finding themselves pushed out by local bigwigs. In Virginia a Perot backer says he was ousted, partly over his desire to include more blacks in the campaign. One Oklahoma activist, wary of losing control to local heavies, says he's keeping 35,000 petition signatures in a bank vault until he delivers them to state election officials. The Perot campaign insists that it is not trampling...
...although Walsh was a major backer of the ethics legislation package just before the investigation began, suspicions of his dealings have been floating around the city for years...
What kind of President would Perot make? He considers abortion "a woman's choice," and is a backer of education reforms. If elected, he has promised to introduce a number of provocative -- and in some cases wildly impractical -- innovations...
Castro's Council of State made it clear that it hoped to scare off opponents, foreign and domestic. At least 60 human-rights activists have been arrested on the island in the six months since the August coup precipitated the breakup of the Soviet Union, Cuba's principal backer. "The idea," said the council in a statement, "is to stop such loathsome actions from being repeated...
...staunch backer of the Palestine Liberation Organization, China finally succumbed to Jerusalem's courtship out of a desire to re-enter the world stage. Beijing wants to dispel the smoke of ostracism that still hangs over it from the 1989 Tiananmen massacre and fill the power vacuum left by the Soviet Union's breakup...