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...Buchanan is not Ross Perot, and more important, 2000 is not 1992. Above all, "it's the economy, stupid." In general, relatively high unemployment and low growth (such as we saw in 1992) help two kinds of candidates, the liberal and the extremist. One promises that the government will help, the other promises to find a scapegoat for the problem. And, of course, the incumbent tries (usually somewhat unsuccessfully) to deny that there's a problem...
...furious response from the Vatican, and raised the possibility of the pope canceling a scheduled Holy Land visit in the New Year. Not that the local constabulary would complain too much if His Holiness bows out. "If he does come, security officials are worried to death that some extremist, either Jewish or Muslim, will try to kill him," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer...
...characterized both the explosion of TWA Flight 800 and the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City as works of extremist Muslims, charges that were both later proved false. As someone often regarded as a expert on terrorism, he is listened to and believed readily when he makes these comments, and thus has a responsibility to weigh evidence and choose his words more carefully. Otherwise, he propagates stereotypes...
...well known--probably falsely--for an extremist position, and I wanted to hear what she really wants," said Georgianna P. Powell...
...party, whose leader, Joerg Haider, has expressed views sympathetic to the Third Reich, became the second largest party in Austria after Sunday?s election, finishing only 6 percent behind the ruling Social Democrats and ahead of its coalition partner, the conservative People?s party. The mystery is how an extremist party has managed to break into the mainstream at a time of prosperity and relative social calm. "Austrians are not angry, they?re bored," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "The Social Democrats have run Austria for more than 50 years, and the fact that they?ve been...