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...plays a different tune when addressing the rest of the country, the voters must take note of the disparity. When President Clinton makes campaign promises and compassionately talks about issues without making actual substantial efforts to adopt and implement his promises, we must take notice and call his bluff. If we entrust the executive branch to an individual simply because he belongs to our party and because we feel that he will be our friend, who knows how best to run the country, then, in these momentous times, I shall pray the old Spanish proverb, "God save me from...
...DESERVES TO BE called the mausoleum of Soviet communism, it is Ulyanovsk, the industrial center on the Volga where Vladimir Lenin, ne Ulyanov, was born in 1870. It contains a varied assortment of Lenin shrines, from his parents' apartments to his classroom to a modernistic museum complex on a bluff overlooking the river. The city is so resistant to political and economic reform that some Russians refer to it as a "communist preserve." It has been ruled since 1990, except for a brief interval, by its "Red Governor," Yuri Goryachev, who was once First Secretary of the region's Communist...
...David Dunlap, president of Dunlap's Pine Bluff Monument Company in Arkansas, on the repossessing and removal of the tombstone of Nolan Parks III. The Parks family said they thought they had paid their $152 balance. The balance has now been paid, but it is uncertain when the monument will be returned...
...they thought he was bluffing, they had the chance to call his bluff," Galluccio said...
...Peres accused the Likud leader of sending secret messages to Syrian President Hafez Assad. The messages, Peres told the Knesset yesterday, say Israel will be ready to trade land for peace if Likud wins the parliamentary elections later this year. Netanyahu denied the charges, calling them "a big bluff." Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer reports: "This accusation dates back to Rabin, who also accused Netanyahu of sending such messages. And for two prime ministers to make that accusation does carry with it a certain level of credibility. Even if the messages are being sent, it is doubtful that Assad will...