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...history of undermining the foreign policy aims of our nation's elected representatives--as well as basic international law--should not receive the legitimacy of associating itelf with one of the world's leading institutions of liberal education. The recent Iran-contra affair patently showed how the CIA can corrupt U.S. foreign policy...
...Iran-contra affair showed anything, it wasn't that the "CIA can corrupt U.S. foreign policy." It was that the CIA is a tool that can be misused by the officials who make U.S. foreign policy. To argue otherwise is to forget that our elected leaders control the agency, and that it is they who are responsible for its mistakes...
...truce negotiations, but that hardly dispels what one Congressman calls a "reservoir of bitterness" against the Speaker. Some of that is normal in the election season, but it seemed to go beyond all bounds last week when Georgia's Newt Gingrich stormed through Florida calling Wright a "genuinely corrupt man" and comparing him to Mussolini. Even given Gingrich's right-wing fervor, that is startling stuff...
...hold on popular support is slowly slipping, and the country is on the brink of chaos. Though she has painstakingly restored democracy, she has not been able to usher in paradise. Instead, the threat of apocalypse hangs over the Philippines. As Aquino tries to rid the country of the corrupt legacy of Ferdinand Marcos, an increasing number of Filipinos fear that her government is running out of steam. "We expected decency in government. We expected efficiency," says Antonio Oposa, a lawyer in the central Philippine city of Cebu. "Maybe that's too much to expect of one woman." He adds...
Aquino's mean-momma posture is unlikely to produce results unless she gets some help. Unfortunately, she must still rely on a corrupt, underpaid and dispirited bureaucracy to carry out her plans and a bankrupt treasury to finance them. She has to go to a bickering Congress for approval of major initiatives. But Aquino now realizes she will have to work hard to keep the popularity that has buoyed her through the travails of the past 19 months. Said the President bitterly last week: "The honeymoon is over, isn't it? But I am not sorry. The sooner...