Word: backlashers
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...bipartisan cooperation. Not that the word "bipartisan" has much currency anymore in a House where each member seems to have his own solution to the crisis. In the end, perhaps the only thing that will keep the GOP from letting the tapes be broadcast is the fear of public backlash. After all, Clinton always comes back strongest when he is most under fire...
...will slash the savings of some Russians and increase the cost of living for many, especially those who live in the cities, where more than half the food in the shops is imported. Those are cruel blows to a nation that is already suffering, and could trigger enough political backlash and social unrest to threaten Yeltsin and raise questions about who or what will follow...
Whether or not Yeltsin's economic package succeeds, the sharpest backlash may be political. Yeltsin will surely find it more difficult stitching together a coalition of politicians and financiers to back him in a run for a third term two years from now. In fact, if the emergency measures begin to work, the big winner may turn out to be Anatoli Chubais, the former First Deputy Prime Minister who has been handling Russia's international-debt negotiations. His boosters will cheer him as the man who pulled Russia back from the brink--while Yeltsin fiddled...
...bombing of a Planet Hollywood restaurant in Cape Town, South Africa, is unlikely to be the work of Osama bin Laden, but it suggests that backlash from last week's U.S. missile strike may originate in quarters far outside the super-terrorist's own networks. A group calling itself Muslims Against Global Oppression said the Tuesday evening blast that killed two people and wounded 21 was in retaliation for the strike on Afghanistan and Sudan. A group of the same name had protested against President Clinton's visit to the city earlier this year, which suggests the attackers may have...
...before the grand jury and left the courthouse in anguish, Martin made a rare public appearance to protest. His confidential negotiations proved even more effective, private lawyers in the case tell TIME. Warning prosecutors that if Lewis were recalled, she would criticize them for cruelty and reignite a public backlash from her first appearance, Martin is said to have suggested a compromise: allow her to testify in a deposition outside the grand jury. Starr's office agreed, and Martin's stock soared for easing a difficult passage...