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...have come -- or fallen. The struggle over Robert Bork turned court nominations into a savage political battleground. "Every faction wants its own little government in the court," sighed one White House strategist last week. The Democratic Congress, so long denied Executive power, and the Republican White House, so long thwarted in Legislative matters, both seek the balance of power through the Supreme Court. Washington has 55,000 lawyers, 7,000 lobbyists, 20,000 congressional staff members and some 10,000 journalists. Most of them are self-appointed experts on the court. They produce interesting noise, no discernible national harmony...
Among Bush's closest advisers, one faction, led by Secretary of State James Baker and Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, may prod Bush to choose a moderate conservative to avoid the type of Senate fight that led to the rejection of Bork. They are expected to argue that since Bush may have a chance to fill more vacancies, there is no need to antagonize Congress in an election year...
Alia's modest reforms seem to have split the 53-member Central Committee of the ruling party. Many Western diplomats believe a strong conservative faction has grown up around Hoxha's widow Nexhmije, supported by the Sigurimi, Albania's much feared secret police force. Anxious to slow if not halt the reforms, the conservatives may even have sought to oust Alia...
...numbers continued to rise, Western concern began to grow too. A victory by the conservative faction could turn the trickle into a flood. At week's end the Albanian parliament agreed to let all the asylum seekers leave the country without fear of punishment. Whether that will stop the flow for good is another matter...
...leader, who is receiving treatment for kidney cancer at a Soviet hospital in East Germany, is still under investigation for corruption and abuse of power. Late last month new potential charges surfaced: East German Interior Minister Peter-Michael Diestel announced that Honecker had given safe haven to Red Army Faction terrorists. Honecker and a few senior officials may eventually stand trial, but the vast majority of party members seem unlikely to suffer much. For example, Diestel has hired back, as an act of "Christian charity," 12,000 former State Security employees who had been fired by a citizens' committee...