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...been compared to the young Jimmy Stewart, he favors jeans and sneakers, and his command of American political history is better than that of some people on Capitol Hill. Word is that Sergei Stankevich, 37, the deputy mayor of Moscow, may soon be appointed Soviet ambassador to the U.S., replacing coup-tainted Viktor Komplektov. Once a professor of American politics, Stankevich has put his knowledge of U.S. constitutional procedures to good use as an outspoken reformer in the Congress of People's Deputies and as a back- room tutor to Boris Yeltsin. Mikhail Gorbachev, who once regarded Stankevich...
Just as the financial community had feared, the scandal set off by Salomon Brothers' efforts to corner the market for U.S. Treasury securities spread across much of Wall Street last week. On Capitol Hill, Richard Breeden, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, said that "a distressingly large" number of firms had routinely inflated orders for bonds sold by government-sponsored agencies like the Federal National Mortgage Association. The bogus orders apparently enabled firms to purchase extra bonds and resell them at a hefty profit...
Morality lectures from Shamir, Bush did not need. And when the pro-Israeli lobbyists subsequently stepped up their efforts to secure quick passage of the loan guarantees on Capitol Hill, an irate Bush summoned his aides, saying, "I want to talk to the American people." Last Thursday afternoon Bush stepped into the White House press room, the stony fighter-pilot look in his eyes not unlike the determination he exhibited the morning after Iraq invaded Kuwait. In plain language he threatened to veto any congressional loan bill that might emerge before the prospective Middle East peace conference, which he hopes...
Loan guarantees could also upset the hostage negotiations at a delicate moment. In 1990 kidnappers threatened to harm American hostages if the immigration of Soviet Jews to Israel continued. A favorable vote on Capitol Hill could unravel months of careful diplomacy by U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar. Last week the prospects for an end to the seven-year- old hostage insanity looked more promising than ever. In exchange for the release of 51 prisoners and nine bodies, Israel received firm confirmation from the pro-Iranian Hizballah of the death of one of its seven missing servicemen and inconclusive...
...hearings revealed little about Thomas, they said much about the limits of a body that has become one of the liberals' last redoubts on Capitol Hill, the only place where Democrats, locked out of the White House for the past 10 years, can attempt to fend off conservative nominees to the court. Even when Biden and Massachusetts' Edward Kennedy teamed up four years ago to defeat Robert Bork, it looked as if the Democrats could only briefly prevent the Reagan White House from seizing control of the Supreme Court well into the 21st century. That proved a Pyrrhic victory...