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...Catholic man. "The killing is not being read as a definitive response to the cease-fire," says TIME Dublin reporter Tony Connelly. "A Catholic has been killed once a week or once every two weeks since a long time before the cease-fire." Still, he says, the enmity and distrust between Protestants and Catholics has hardly waned since the declaration of a cease-fire. According to a poll released today in the Irish media, a scant 9 percent of all Protestants in Ireland believe the cease-fire will be permanent. "You can't unravel 25 years of bitterness...
...problem here concerns appearances. The independent-counsel law, enacted 15 years ago in the wake of Watergate, was a response to the public's growing distrust of its leaders. The law accepted the assumption that an Administration should not investigate itself. It understood that a government deriving its legitimacy from the consent of the governed must not only act forthrightly but appear to do so. Indeed, the Sentelle panel adopted this exact rationale to ax Fiske, who had been appointed by Clinton's Justice Department. The statute, the judges said, "contemplates an apparent as well as an actual independence...
...says Ford vice president Tom Wagner, who heads the automaker's customer-satisfaction operations. Chrysler sales vice president Tom Pappert agrees: "We have got to get away from intimidation. Even for people who don't mind shopping and bargain hunting, it's the distrust factor that causes the heartburn...
Which is not to say the trip was bare of accomplishment. Clinton's presence in Riga and Warsaw earlier in the week was designed to show East Europeans that the U.S. has not forgotten about them while cultivating a Russia that they still deeply distrust. At the Naples summit, Clinton and his G-7 colleagues agreed on the outlines of a new multibillion-dollar aid package for Ukraine. The seven countries would help pay for decommissioning the four nuclear reactors at the infamous Chernobyl site and completing three new nuclear power plants that would generate much more electricity. Additional billions...
...probably right. And, as self-financed pols never tire of reminding the electorate, they are beholden to no special interests. Yet a certain distrust of them persists. Candidates who become too chummy with contributors or their party's political machine may turn corrupt, but candidates whose wealth enables them to win elections without engaging in the give-and-take of party activism may turn into testy, unbending legislators, a Congress of Perots. Says Norman Ornstein, a congressional scholar at the American Enterprise Institute: "Ideally, you want Congress to be a variegated group, people with diverse life experiences. You lose something...