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Though widely lauded for her devotion to higher education and public service, the Washington Post has billed Shalala as “one of the most controversial Clinton Cabinet nominees—one who had been branded by critics as being too liberal and politically correct...
...answer dismays almost all visitors - whose view of Americans, of course, also come from movies. In a room packed with such priceless gifts as the solid-gold replica of mosque doors from Saudi Arabia and a large gold gong from Malaysia, is a small glass cabinet containing Washington's gifts: four bowls - two silver, two porcelain - bearing the White House insignia, given at various times by Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Energy Secretary Samuel Bordman. Another display shows a box of 12 autographed golf balls given to Nazarbayev by Clinton...
...Gaullist danger hung over the chamber on Tuesday when Gaillard staked his cabinet on a vote of confidence and won, 282-196. The Premier used the vote as a maneuver in his up-hill struggle to push stabilizing constitutional reforms through the Assembly, but he faces further debate on the proposal next week...
...When the parliamentary weekend approached yesterday, the ministry could breath more easily; for Gaillard had temporarily preserved his government’s existence The independents, who had threatened to withdraw form the Cabinet and thus cause the Premier’s resignation if he compromised too much in the Tunisian dispute, decided to remain, at least temporarily, in the ministry. And at the same time, President Habib Bourbguiba of Tunisian reaffirmed his ties with West and indicated that he might compromise on several of the demands he has made as a result of the French bombings of Sakiet-Sidi-Youseff...
...there has been quite a bit of speculation about the collapse of the Republic. But though it has been a critical time in the National Assembly, there seems little chance at present for a right wing coup. A police demonstration is far from an insurrection, and even if the cabinet falls, the parliamentary merry-go-round should keep on turning there are disaffected and frustrated army groups in France in addition to the extreme right wing parties, but according got Hoffman, de Gaulle seems sick of politics and gives his supporters little reason to believe that he will lead them...