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Finally realizing her indiscretion, she clammed up like Clarence Thomas faced with a question about Roe. Can't tell you that, sir; can't even estimate. Further queries got the same kind of neither-confirm-nor-deny blather one usually associates with Kremlin cronies asked questions about Finland...
Wilson, who predicted that the committee would deadlock, also said that he expects a solid majority in the Senate to confirm the nomination...
Yakovlev tried several times to dissuade Gorbachev from this course. Rather than intimidating the democratic opposition, he warned, a showdown would confirm the widespread suspicion that Gorbachev had, in his desperation, thrown in his lot with the reactionaries. And even if disaster was avoided, a decision to pit the military muscle of the center against peaceful demonstrators would backfire against Gorbachev, strengthening Yeltsin's popular base...
...early '70s: "Evil has great momentum, but the forces of good are inert. The masses . . . have no fight in them, and will acquiesce in whatever happens." Until last week the Russian character was judged to be politically passive, even receptive to brutal rule. At first the coup seemed to confirm the norm. The news administered a dark shock, followed immediately by a depressed sense of resignation: of course, of course, the Russians must revert to their essential selves, to their own history. Gorbachev and glasnost were the aberration; now we are back to fatal normality. "Every country has the government...
Sources close to the Iran-contra investigation, now in its sixth year, confirm that independent counsel LAWRENCE WALSH will announce indictments against a series of former CIA officers in September. Clair George, the former deputy director of operations, and Duane Clarridge, onetime head of the spy agency's Latin America division, among others, are likely to be charged with perjury and withholding information from Congress. In response to the investigation, several CIA veterans have established a fund to offset court costs for the accused. Walsh is said to be furious about that effort, and sees it as further evidence...