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...came Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent arrival of more than 500,000 U.S. troops in the region. While President Bush maintained that Desert Storm was not designed to promote democracy in the gulf's oilagarchies, the campaign to liberate Kuwait prodded conservative Arab rulers to broaden public participation...
Whether Tsongas can build on that asset is uncertain. In New Hampshire he had a year to campaign at his leisure. As the nominating contest goes national, Tsongas has not been able to expand his austere message. "We're going to have to broaden the appeal," he conceded last week, while giving no evidence that he knew how. Nor is it clear that Tsongas can keep up effectively with Clinton's tireless pace. During a televised debate in Dallas last week, Clinton was feisty, Tsongas wan. "I was just exhausted," he said later. His lean campaign organization, which he began...
...NATIONALISTS. Many of the communist sympathizers are trying to broaden their appeal by adopting some of the nationalist and patriotic themes of the right wing. At last week's demonstration, symbols of Russian imperialism were almost as common a sight as the hammer and sickle. Viktor Alksnis, who led a faction of hard-liners in the old Soviet parliament, has teamed up with noncommunist nationalists in an umbrella movement called Nashi (Ours) that seeks to restore the U.S.S.R., whether in its previous form or as a new Russian empire. "Anyone who supports the union is ours," says Alksnis...
...interests of ending discrimination, argues third-year law and CCR member student Laura E. Hankins, the court must broaden its definition of who can bring suit. Hankins says she believes that students are the only group in the University community likely to go to court over issues of faculty hiring...
...prospect that such cooperation will broaden into a nuclear mutual-aid society haunts Israeli experts in particular. Leshem believes that "an international Mafia aimed at getting the Bomb for every member" already exists and is swapping technology and training. The buyers would include Iran, Algeria and to some extent Libya. China is the leading seller, and North Korea is playing both roles...