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...Congress in three months gathered in the Grand Kremlin Palace on Friday, the impeachment drive seemed to be losing its momentum. Although the Kremlin rang with bitter invective, the hard-liners did not have the votes to depose Yeltsin. Zorkin, the Chief Justice who had set the impeachment bandwagon in motion, instead offered a 10-point plan for national reconciliation similar to Yeltsin's own program, including a referendum on a new constitution and a law abolishing the Congress in favor of a bicameral parliament...
Bill Clinton might not relish comparisons of himself with either Lyndon Johnson or Ronald Reagan. As a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, he demonstrated against Johnson's Vietnam policy, and he is now pushing a deficit-cutting program that specifically aims to stand Reaganomics on its ear. But as a bandwagon driver, Clinton is getting off to a start that either of his quick- off-the-mark predecessors might envy. Like them, he is capitalizing on a combination of shrewd planning, guile in bargaining and no little luck to put a stamp on policy that could be lasting...
After a slow start, the President's bandwagon gets rolling...
...past two weeks, the AMA, U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association have publicly jumped on the managed- competition bandwagon. Under fire from the White House for price gouging, the drugmakers last week asked the Justice Department to grant an exemption from antitrust prosecution so that they can negotiate voluntary price restraints. "The train is leaving the station," said a drug lobbyist. "We're just trying to slow the train down long enough . . . to get on board...
...whatever reason--maybe it's because health care eats up 13 percent of our gross national product--we bought it this year. While universal care seemed a pipe dream when Sen. Bob Kerrey first injected it into the 1992 campaign, Bill Clinton and Paul Tsongas soon jumped on the bandwagon. Support for universal health care, in one form or another, differentiated the Arkansasan from President Bush, who supported tax incentives to expand coverage but wouldn't guarantee everyone a health plan. Polls show that health care stuck out more than any other issue in the minds of Clinton voters...