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...come from the President or the Republican Party." As O'Neill well knows, the chances of that are zero. "Tip's point is that if the President is not willing to deal with this, he-Tip-isn't going to put Democratic heads on the block," explains a House Democratic leader. "That may be good politics, but it's bad economics...
...German and U.S. officials fear that such violence could intensify. Some of the protests will focus on possible missile sites, such as Bitburg and Neu-Ulm, where relations between local residents and U.S. soldiers have generally been good. But confrontations might occur even in those places, especially if demonstrators block access to the bases. The West German Interior Ministry has warned, moreover, that terrorist attacks cannot be ruled out. U.S. and West German authorities have formed a joint committee to discuss preventive measures. "The thing we fear most," says an Interior Ministry official, "is that some young German will...
...paradox lies in the everlasting clash of constraint (unlimited government control) with freedom (unlimited license to people). China's leadership knows that China cannot go forward without huge grants of initiative to its people. But the clash begins at the very bottom, in the danwei, the lowest-level building block of the party's control, which denies every grace of liberty to its members...
...political opportunism of other right-wing groups ostensibly backing the issue. At its most convincing, this pro-life sentiment struck a responsive chord in those uncomfortable with the convulsions of a society modernizing at breakneck speed. One of the movement's leaders challenged abortion as a building block of a society that would be "engineered," not created...
Local TV news often proves as unintrusive as Muzak as well. After the broadcast's first block of eight minutes or so, viewers get three minutes of weather (no phone numbers, though), four to five minutes of sports, and three or so soft-news packages, as opposed to voice overs (an anchor narrating a videotape). Last summer, even in Chicago, which is recognized as one of the country's strongest local markets, viewers could have watched reports on "Flashdance chic" in the city; a camera and a reporter followed a few unsuspecting women who wore oversized sweatshirts...