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...history has demonstrated: wrong. No one would dare claim that in Central America poverty and injustice are gone. But the region no longer seethes with revolution. What happened? Injustice did not disappear. The Soviets did, and with them the sinews and romance of socialist revolution...
Bill Clinton had proposed the debate on something of a dare, leaving Gore only four days to prepare for the face-off. The President's aides immediately professed anxiety about the Veep's prospects. But Gore set out to beat the carefully lowered expectations. He spent Saturday alone reading a giant, black briefing book prepared by aides. On Sunday he reviewed videotapes of Perot's recent TV appearances and directed research into Perot's many claims, discussing lines of counterattack with aides. On Monday, a team of nearly a dozen advisers fired questions at Gore for two hours over...
...Gore emerged as the consensus winner in his TV showdown with Perot. The latest predictions from nose counters: NAFTA might win by two or three votes. But if it appears to be falling short, it will lose by 60 to 70, because many pro-NAFTA Representatives will not dare to provoke union and Perotista fury in a losing cause...
Either people do not realize that they ultimately control the application of a technology, or that knowledge is not enough for them. The answer, instead, seems to be to stifle the scientists who dare to open this moral can of worms. More than three-quarters of those polled by Time want the U.S. government to intervene in cloning research. And in Germany, Stillman could have been sent to prison for up to five years for his experiment...
...other states. In fact, it is hard to see anything else that might stanch that flow. Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Attorney General Janet Reno have begun to make that argument, but gingerly. The subject is a very touchy one to Mexicans and Mexican Americans, and Clintonites dare not sound like nativists warning about a Brown Peril...