Word: cabineteer
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Mandela and his colleagues have also had practical success managing the economy. For most of its history, the A.N.C. stood by its bible, the Freedom Charter, which called for the nationalization of Big Business and the redistribution of wealth. Now the socialists in Mandela's Cabinet talk of shrinking government and privatization. For the time being, the government is subscribing to the free-market philosophy that the best way to redistribute wealth is to create it; and the best way to create it is to save money, not spend...
...white South Africans provokes one of the most acute criticisms of his government. Some have accused Mandela of bending too far to assuage white anxieties at the expense of black aspirations. The queen of these populist detractors is Mandela's estranged wife Winnie. When Mandela fired her from a Cabinet post for criticizing the government, there was fear that she might incite a breakaway movement within the A.N.C. In fact, the incident rallied party stalwarts around the President. Winnie found herself with no one willing to defend...
...meets with Jay Naidoo, the Cabinet Minister in charge of the Reconstruction and Development Program, the government's ambitious effort to improve the lives of the nation's impoverished black majority. Naidoo reports progress-196,000 new houses are in the pipeline-but he acknowledges that results have been slow. Mandela repeatedly demonstrates his grasp of practical details. For example, he advises Naidoo to look into a low-cost housing scheme emphasizing self-reliance that he recently observed in Namibia...
House GOP leadersthis afternoon unveiled theirlong-promised planto balance the budget. It sharply curbs Medicare and Medicaid spending and eliminates three Cabinet departments (Education, Energy and Commerce), the General Services Administration and scores of government programs. The package also calls for large cuts in foreign aid, a five-year moratorium on new federal buildings, and limits on cost-of-living increases for military pensions. "Support for passing a balanced budget the week after next is overwhelming," House Speaker Newt Gingrich said today. But "people have already started screaming and yelling," one Republican told TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty, adding that...
...that House Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich (R-Ohio) is circulating documents in GOP circles that dramatically fulfill his promises of radical federal budget cuts. The package, which Kasich began showing House members under tight security Thursday at a House Republican retreat in Leesburg, Va., includes elimination of three Cabinet departments (Education, Energy and Commerce), the General Services Administration and scores of government programs. It also calls for sharp cuts in foreign aid, a five-year moratorium on new federal buildings and limits on cost-of-living increases for military pensions. "People have already started screaming and yelling," one person...