Word: democratics
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Political skullduggeries are as much at home in Louisiana as crawfish or beignets. Few people in New Orleans believe the November contest in which Democrat Mary Landrieu defeated Jenkins by 5,788 votes was, in its execution, a model of civic propriety. But Jenkins' cause was dealt a serious blow last week when Democrats on the Senate Rules Committee walked away from the investigation he demanded after the election. They had learned that Jenkins hired a two-bit gumshoe named Thomas ("Papa Bear") Miller--a New Orleans operative with a long, sometimes violent criminal record. Papa Bear...
Pessimists say don't believe it. The liberty-loving democrats of Hong Kong are doomed to fall victim to China's power-mad communists. Even if Beijing's intentions were good--and they're not--its authoritarian habits and dictatorial rule will not tolerate Hong Kong's freedoms for long. Hong Kong's leading democrat, Martin Lee, predicts that a free press, rule of law, the right of assembly and of political demonstrations will disappear if the people of Hong Kong and the international community fail to fight Beijing for them. Tiananmen was the "real face" of the communists, says...
...mere prospect of Le Pen's forces' grabbing a share of real power is enough to make any true democrat shudder. A former paratrooper who has been accused of torturing prisoners during the Algerian war in 1957, Le Pen raised his party's support from less than 1% in 1981 to its current 15% by exploiting public fears of France's 4 million immigrants, preaching racial inequality and dispensing thinly disguised anti-Semitism (he has dismissed the Holocaust as a "detail of history"). With unemployment at 12.8%, Le Pen is winning support for his calls to expel immigrants and give...
...hurdles for the FDA, some impossible burdens," Kessler said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." "This seems to be a step backward." Congressmen, who have to pass legislation to make the proposed settlement law, are also picking at the terms. "We need to toughen this deal," said Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden Monday on ABC's Good Morning America. "There's going to be some major rewriting on this agreement...
Thompson may be hoping to fill in the blanks with a team of gumshoes he dispatched to Asia last Friday. But so far, committee sources tell TIME, the six investigators--two FBI agents, three G.O.P. staff members and one Democrat--have lined up appointments with only two bit players of the more than two dozen people they had hoped to interview. State Department officials tell TIME the China leg of the trip was canceled after the communist government refused to allow independent fact finding there. Instead Beijing promised to allow the team to meet with government officials to discuss...