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...stacked-deck electoral system ?- within a whisker of holding on to power. Add to that an opposition vote split between Megawati?s secular Indonesian Democratic Party for Struggle and various Islamic parties, and the country?s next president still looks likely to be decided in a series of backroom deals. Then again, no military-backed deal is going to enjoy much legitimacy if the vote-counters don?t get a move...
...Monday, together with 38 appointed by the military and 200 nominated by the present military-backed government. Add to that an opposition fractured between secular and Muslim parties, and it?s likely that despite the democratic breakthrough, the country?s next president will be decided in a series of backroom deals...
...that burst into the open last week. Just 48 hours into the war, NATO Commander Wesley Clark called on Washington to send in the state-of-the-art AH-64 helicopter gunships as the best weapon against Milosevic's ferocious ground-level cleansing of Kosovo. After a week of backroom debate, a deeply reluctant Pentagon and White House agreed to deploy the Army's premier tank killers--but not to use them in battle. More than two weeks later, to great fanfare, the first of 24 began arriving in Albania along with their 5,350 attendant soldiers, where two aircraft...
...those who would have made otherwise made excellent Senators, Representatives or even presidents have been shoved aside by the big boys playing big-boy politics. The Founding Fathers' vision of a fair and representative political system has been lost in a haze of fund-raisers, White House coffees and backroom deals...
...Johnson administration bribed senators in backroom dealings with the promise of appointing a secretary of war of their liking. Johnson's opponents pressured the senators with threats ranging from political ostracism to assassination. In the end, Johnson's opponents made good on at least one threat: None of the Republicans who voted for acquittal was ever re-elected to the Senate...