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...meals were a tentative gesture toward openness. Through 58 years of uninterrupted rule by P.R.I., a Mexican President has had virtually a free hand in choosing his successor as the party's nominee. This year, however, a dissident faction known as the Democratic Current has clamored to open P.R.I.'s nomination process. In response, party officials drew up a short list of candidates. But the rebels are not impressed. "It's a grand show," said Democratic Current Leader Cuauhtemoc Cardenas. "Nothing has changed...
That lesson applies to contenders in both parties. Creating political muscle, like building real biceps, takes time and sweat. Without some pain in the form of stands that offend one faction or another, political gain in the long run is elusive...
Many of the mourners soon dispersed, but some 40,000 continued to occupy the city hall plaza. Then, goaded by a far-left student faction, the crowd began marching up Taepyongno Street in the direction of the Blue House, the official residence of South Korea's President. The route was blocked off by riot police, who until then had remained out of sight. Within minutes the confrontation erupted into full-scale combat that lasted about two hours. Police fired pepper gas from five "black elephants," truck-mounted guns that spew out canisters at machine-gun speed. The protesters attacked police...
Through the winter and spring, the reformers had been balked by the doctrinaire Marxists, who were making a comeback after seven years of retreat in the face of Deng's reforms. The doctrinaire faction -- also known as conservatives and, even more confusingly, leftists -- blamed the reformers for last December's huge pro-democracy student demonstrations and launched a major campaign against "bourgeois liberalization." They vigorously attacked many of Deng's post-Mao changes, including greater artistic and press freedom and most moves toward capitalist-style economic reforms...
...Soviet moves have entangled the U.S. with allies who cannot stand scrutiny. A prize example is the financing of food supplies for guerrilla groups fighting the Soviet-backed Vietnamese occupiers of Kampuchea. Congress at one point forbade any U.S. aid to the Khmer Rouge, an out-of-power Communist faction that, when it ruled Kampuchea, launched a program of maniacal genocide. But relief officials in the area say some food paid for by the U.S. got to the Khmer Rouge anyway...