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Asked last week why Bill Clinton has done so much better than he among minority voters, PAUL TSONGAS gave a surprisingly blunt answer: "I don't like the composition of our staff." He'd just blasted Dennis Kanin, his campaign manager, he said, for not hiring enough women, blacks and Hispanics. Said the candidate: "I don't want any more white males." Tsongas was grateful for the true believers -- the college boys and eager young operatives -- when he was runmning on empty in New Hampshire, with no money and no political heavyweights eager to sign on. But he know that...
...watershed moment for America's world role. In the cold war, we played a dramatic but defensive role in containing communism. In the immediate postwar years, we implemented a two-pronged strategy to blunt Moscow's main thrust in Europe, using military power to deter aggression and economic power through the Marshall Plan to counter the communist ideological challenge. We later beat back Soviet salients in Korea, the Philippines, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Angola, Afghanistan and elsewhere...
...appeared on Capitol Hill last week to announce the Administration's terms for the $10 billion in loan guarantees that Israel is seeking to help resettle Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union. Taking a gamble no previous Administration has been willing to contemplate seriously, Baker laid out a blunt policy line to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations. Israel has two choices, he said. The U.S. would back the loans for five years with no strings attached -- but only if Israel agreed to freeze its rapid construction of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories. Or Israel could complete...
...will help either constituency. One leading G.O.P. official, grimacing at the size of the real estate tax break, described Bush's proposals to let real estate "investors" write off their losses on new buildings against other income as "insane." An aide to House majority leader Richard Gephardt was less blunt but no less pointed: "What the nation needs isn't more buildings. What it needs is more tenants...
...last February, Bush boosted spending for basic research 13%, but most federal R. and D. dollars still go into weapons development, which yields few mass-market spin-offs. In the past year, the warnings about that imbalance have grown starker. As the Office of Technology Assessment stated in a blunt report in October, "If there are no major changes in government policies of developed nations, we expect U.S. manufacturing competitiveness to continue to sink, compared with Japan...