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...that "we already have free television, free radio and a free press." And what a free press it is! In February, Yeltsin fired the head of Russian state television and radio, whom the President perceived as too critical. Since then, Russia's TV news has become an unapologetic Yeltsin booster. Zyuganov rightly rants about the lack of coverage, but he does get some--all of it negative. Meanwhile, day after day, Russian television reports on Yeltsin glowingly. The President's Yaroslavl visit, for instance, was presented as a triumph rather than a disaster, and Yeltsin's revealing remarks...
...gargantuan hulk of a half-built casino, slated to be the world's largest, sits rusting on the edge of the French Quarter. The builder, Harrah's Jazz Co., is bankrupt, done in by an overly optimistic tax deal with the state. Louisiana Governor Mike Foster, once a gambling booster, now wants to outlaw both casinos and video poker...
President Clinton was not the only politician facing a Cuban crisis last week. So was Steve Forbes. The Republican presidential aspirant continued to come under fire from conservative Cuban-American quarters in Congress for the "repugnant activities" of one of his top political boosters, economic consultant Jude Wanniski. In 1994 Wanniski made a friendly port of call to Havana in a private effort to market his famed supply-side capitalist remedies to top Cuban officials. Wanniski, then a Bob Dole booster, received a prompt letter of admonishment from the Senate leader ("I would appreciate being consulted..."). Though Forbes opposes Castro...
...trade, as on other points, of course, Buchanan often appeals less to economic logic than to nationalistic nostalgia. Last week he apostrophized the faces on Mount Rushmore as those of fellow protectionists, and he was right. George Washington was a Buy American booster who boasted that he drank only U.S.-brewed ale, and Thomas Jefferson came over to that side as President. Both Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt assailed free trade. T.R.'s view: "Pernicious indulgence in the doctrine of free trade seems inevitably to produce fatty degeneration of the moral fiber...
...Picnic, as in real life, William Holden is every woman's dream: "'Is this what the women of America want?' asks a Hollywood producer. 'You mean...that the great lover of our time is a civic booster who recently served on the Los Angeles Park Commission?...No blue suede shoes, no moldy sweatshirts. He doesn't walk down Sunset Boulevard with an ocelot. He doesn't even have a Filipino houseboy. This is a movie star? He goes to P.T.A. meetings. He has been married to the same woman for 15 years. His swimming pool is not in the shape...