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...exactly. You can't swing a rosary in Manila nowadays without snaring a self-professed "destabilizer": someone trying to undermine the presidency of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Or an accuser charging the government with some malfeasance, or a Senator or Congressman calling for Arroyo to quit, or a prophet forecasting "major change"?meaning a complete overhaul of the Philippine political system. The press is certainly looking for them, and writing up breathless copy even when they don't quite fit the bill. Eugenia Apostol, publisher of the new Mr. & Ms., did some television interviews at the relaunch soir?e and was asked...
...most measures, North Carolina Congressman James Broyhill is a true-blue Republican conservative. After 23 years on Capitol Hill, Broyhill, 58, has an 88% approval rating from the American Conservative Union, and the Congressional Quarterly reports that he took the conservative side in more than 85% of House votes in the past decade. But as he campaigns for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in a hotly contested primary next week, Broyhill is finding that his grades as a conservative simply may not be good enough...
Television commercials have lambasted the Congressman as a Washington insider not to be trusted, a turncoat conservative who voted for "Tip O'Neill's budget," the surrender of the Panama Canal and a national holiday commemorating Martin Luther King's birthday. The most damaging blow, however, may be Funderburk's recent contention that Broyhill wants to set up two nuclear-waste sites in the state. Actually, Broyhill introduced legislation to establish a waste site in the West; the bill was later amended in the Senate to set up a second site, not necessarily in North Carolina...
Although the N.C.C.'s tactics worked in 1984 to re-elect Helms in a close victory over then North Carolina Governor James Hunt, this time they may backfire. Broyhill has long represented the state's traditional Republicans, while Funderburk has never run for public office. The Congressman has tried to remain above the fray, refusing even to debate his opponent. Broyhill is still the front runner, but with only 20% of North Carolina's nearly 800,000 Republicans expected to vote in the primary, the decision could be close. The true winner could be the Democrats, who hope that after...
Accordingly, among the most intent observers were some 20 members of Congress, including two of the law's chief sponsors, Republican Senators Phil Gramm of Texas and Warren Rudman of New Hampshire, and one of its main opponents, Congressman Mike Synar, the Oklahoma Democrat who with eleven other members of Congress from both parties brought suit last December to invalidate the law. The legislation establishes declining annual deficit targets until the goal of a balanced budget is reached in fiscal 1991; failure by Congress and the President to meet those tar gets means that the Comptroller, who heads the General...