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P.R.I. officials were outraged last week not so much by Ruiz Massieu's message as by the grandstand manner in which he delivered it. His move has served to push the issue into the lap of the incoming President, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, who will be inaugurated this week. Although a political cartoon last week depicted Zedillo nervously kicking away a ticking time bomb, it is almost certain that he will have to respond to the accusations against leaders of his party, many of whom were once expected to get top jobs when he took office. Like...
...previous strikes, some minor league games will find their way onto TV, but most will not. Nothing wrong with that; baseball is a feast best served alfresco. And the minor leagues dish it up in refreshingly affordable portions. The last time a grandstand seat in the major leagues cost $3.75, Willie Mays was still patrolling center field at the Polo Grounds. At Pittsfield's Wahconah Park, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, a $5 bill buys not only a hot dog but also a seat less than 40 ft. from home plate...
...believe in trying to find out what this isall about. And no one knows. The Department ofEnergy has done something typical of ourgovernment," Wilson said. "It's a grandstand playby the head who doesn't know beans about scienceand who says we're now releasing things that weresecret before. It's a real cover-us with givingpeople too much information so that people cannotfind the real information...
...matter, Aspin flatly stated, would be submitted to him for review. The next day, Mundy, who had been outspoken in opposition to accepting gays in the service, performed his act of contrition at a press conference. He acknowledged "blind-siding" the President. "I just kicked this one in the grandstand," he said. "I did not adequately inform my civilian superiors of the policy." While many military experts sympathized with Mundy's concern for the impact of marriage troubles on his troops, Clinton pounced on the political and constitutional folly of such a policy. "The President nailed the Marine Corps hide...
Arnold sees these outbursts as "attempts to grandstand... these congressmen are saying, 'Look at me, I'm the savior of the taxpayers...