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Maybe it's Gore's turn for good news. Of late, it seemed, whenever Clinton tripped, it was Gore who stubbed his toe. To make his bones in the Administration, for example, good-soldier Gore worked too hard at fund raising and ended up taking money from Buddhist monks and babbling about controlling legal authority. But tomcattery is one perceived Clintonian trait that hasn't rubbed off on Gore. "Clinton and Gore are friends, but not that kind of friends," says a senior Gore aide. "They're close colleagues who sometimes see each other away from work, but then usually...
...Vice President's biggest weakness is not his inability to emulate the Clinton model of politicking but his adoption of its most unsavory aspects. Examples are his "no controlling legal authority" excuse to charges that he violated campaign laws and his denial that he knew the Buddhist temple affair was a political fund raiser. Gore has learned the wrong lessons from the Clinton presidency. But how can we expect him to keep his wits about him in an Administration whose motto seems to be "Everyone does it"? MICHAEL D. ALEX Glendora, Calif...
...GORE "No controlling legal authority." Buddhist monks. Toasting Jiang. Oliver Barrett IV never had problems like these...
...group of Tibetan officials if this one will be the last Dalai Lama, they all say anxiously, "No, no.") And even relatives have sometimes found it hard to countenance his policy of forgiving the Chinese (he once described Mao as "remarkable," has referred to himself as "half Marxist, half Buddhist," and has stepped back from his original demands of independence to calling only for an autonomous "Zone of Peace"). The pressure on him to forswear his policy of nonviolence has intensified as the years go by, and Chinese repression comes ever closer to rendering Tibet extinct...
...like wild melodrama: a father commanded to sacrifice his child, an ark in a deluge, God's son betrayed and murdered and reborn. Ideal material for Martin Scorsese, as he proved in The Last Temptation of Christ, his mean-streets-of-Jerusalem story of a tormented Jesus. By contrast, Buddhist texts are static and serene, antidramatic. And the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet is the ultimate good fellow, not a goodfella. So what can Scorsese find to make his own in KUNDUN...