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...forgotten,'' and pledged to fight anti-Semitism. That same day, his wife Elisabeth confirmed that she had once been a Nazi. The defeated Socialist Party had its own set of problems. Although the Austrian presidency is a largely ceremonial post, and real power rests with the Chancellor and his Cabinet, Waldheim's victory was a rebuke for the Socialists, who have governed for the past 16 years. Austrians have tired of the party's political scandals, wasteful bureaucratic measures and ineffective economic policies. In response to the conservative tide sweeping Austria, the Socialist leadership has taken a step toward...
...story embraces the debate over invading Honduras (Ronald Reagan's earlier incursion into Nicaragua having failed) and a yachtload of American homosexuals who threaten to blow up a Soviet supertanker in Cuba. But all that is mere backdrop for a mordant overview of Washington props and icons: a Cabinet Room table has buttons underneath marked ''Coke, Tab, Fresca, Pepsi, Coffee, Tea.'' When told that he is heading for the wrong aircraft, the President roars, ''Son, they're all my helicopters.'' At the end, ''Q'' Clearance dangles an intriguing question: Where did a onetime spinner of sea-horse operas learn...
...conflicts to be personal affronts and responds with physical intimidation, as Lyndon Johnson sometimes did? These may be attributes of past Presidents, but presidential attributes they are not. Ward R. Hitt White Plains, N.Y. As one who worked side by side with Mario Cuomo for eight years in the cabinet of Governor Hugh Carey, and who served as commissioner of transportation in the Cuomo administration, I found much of what you wrote to be insightful and accurate. But by implying disapproval of Cuomo's management style, you missed an important part of the picture. What I find most unusual about...
...Lebanon, a famously fragile and fractious country. But the five Lebanese militants who arrived home Wednesday in an exchange of prisoners and dead soldiers with Israel returned to a country that seemed momentarily united in victory. The Lebanese government declared a national holiday, and almost the entire Lebanese Cabinet - politicians who are more often plotting one another's demise than appearing together in public - received the new national heroes at Beirut airport with flowers, rice, pomp and circumstance...
...economic damage. Yet, after more than 18 months of internal political stuggles that culminated in a brief armed takeover of Beirut by Hizballah last May, the group has for now effectively ended all debate over its continued bearing of arms. It has secured a veto power in the Cabinet and a sympathetic new President who just announced that, from now on, Hizballah would become part of Lebanon's national defense strategy...