Word: democratizing
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Senator Dianne Feinstein makes an implausible undercover agent, which made her recent experiment in black-market-document procurement all the more persuasive. The California Democrat decided to find out for herself just how easy it would be to get a fake green card and driver's license. So she traded her Hermes scarf for some urban camouflage -- in this case, a gabardine pantsuit -- and went shopping in MacArthur Park, a crime-infested mini-mall for phony immigration documents near downtown Los Angeles. Never mind that the patrician politician went trailing a swarm of agents in dark suits; the fake...
Feinstein was prescient enough to make illegal immigration a pet issue, which gives her some political cover in her unexpectedly tight race against conservative Santa Barbara Congressman Michael Huffington. But the same cannot be said of Democrat Kathleen Brown, who in a struggle to unseat Governor Pete Wilson finds herself slipping over what has become the most hazardous issue of the 1994 elections. If California runs true to form, leading America's social revolutions through the ballot box, it will pass Proposition 187, an implacable, baldly unconstitutional plan to cut off services to illegal immigrants, from schools to health care...
When the former President insisted on accepting an invitation to visit North Korea in June "as a private citizen," his fellow Democrat Clinton had him briefed on what to tell Kim Il Sung -- because, says a resigned U.S. official, he would have gone and talked to Kim anyway. Carter took the occasion to denounce Clinton's attempt to impose international sanctions on North Korea. His visit led to negotiations looking toward a suspension of North Korea's nuclear program that have just been resumed, but with highly uncertain prospects...
Powell has been equally coy about elective politics. A Republican draft- Powell-in-1996 committee has signed up 20 state and 10 regional coordinators and begun raising money. But the general has had no contact with the group, and in fact has never declared himself a Republican -- or a Democrat. He helped to shape Republican foreign and military policy during the Reagan and Bush administrations, but friends say his views on civil rights and social issues may be too Democratic to reconcile with a right-leaning G.O.P...
Congressional action on an international trade agreement will be postponed till after the November elections. President Clinton had hoped for quick approval of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade pact, calling it a measure that will boost the U.S. economy. But Democratic Senator Ernest Hollings, of South Carolina, stalled the treaty, saying it will ship thousands of American jobs overseas, notably many in the textile industry in his state. Using a trump card, Hollings insisted on exercising his right to hold the bill in his Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee for 45 days. Despite lobbying by the Clinton Administration...