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...downs of the economy as the business of politics. When times are bad, incumbents don't sell. That was the lesson George Bush learned hard in 1992, when his re-election chances were sunk by the recession that began in 1990. But in the current fractious political realities, there are two kinds of incumbents: the Democrat in the White House and the uniquely and loudly powerful Republicans in Congress. Sometimes it doesn...
When he served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Lugar managed a fractious group of Senators through a thicket of contentious issues like aid to the contras. He persuaded Ronald Reagan to get the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos to leave office but lined up votes to override Reagan's veto of a bill imposing sanctions on South Africa. A supporter of the defeated balanced-budget amendment, he is rare among his colleagues in proposing specific cuts that hurt a powerful constituency that happens to be his own: farmers. He is leading the charge against farm subsidies, proposing cuts...
While the BSA is commonly perceived as a mainly political group which often finds itself in the middle of controversy, members say the understated actions of its service wing serve to bring together the often fractious whole...
...Ending a fractious search for the next chairman of the Democratic Party, President Clinton settled for a two-man team. Telegenic Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd, who will remain in his seat, will become general chairman of the party and its chief spokesman. Donald Fowler, a longtime Southern political operative, will become the party's national chairman and day-to-day manager...
...population summit in Cairo was predictably fractious and confrontational -- but it ended in surprising harmony. The 180 participating countries approved a plan calling for governments to earmark $17 billion annually by the year 2000 to support family planning, health care and programs that empower women, on the amply documented proposition that women who control their own lives tend to have fewer children. Even so, if there is no better follow-up to Cairo than there was to the Earth Summit in Rio, don't expect the population bomb to be defused anytime soon...