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...quickie polls, was that those conservatives walked away from Bush's "failed, status quo" presidency and will turn to Clinton as the only remaining nonincumbent agent of change. This analysis (spun to negate the Democrats' earlier hope that Bush and Perot would eventually lock themselves in a death grip that would carry both over the precipice) holds that Perot's followers were, like Clinton, fiscal conservatives and social liberals...
...past eight years, Sergei Bubka's grip on the pole vault has been so unrelenting that every competition he enters becomes not a question of who will win but how high Bubka will soar...
Whatever Arafat's shortcomings, his grip on the P.L.O., a coalition of disparate groups, is what keeps it from breaking asunder over such differences. With no potential successor having anywhere near his influence, Arafat's death would almost certainly bring disunity. Among those mentioned as possible heirs is Farouk Kaddoumi, the P.L.O.'s de facto foreign minister. Kaddoumi, one of the founders of the mainstream Fatah faction, considered a hard-liner, has international stature, but he is unpopular among many of his P.L.O. colleagues, in part because of his arrogant demeanor...
...presidential campaign. Yet Bush resents having to ask Baker to bail him out one more time, / and the Secretary has long since grown tired of coming to the rescue. Bush's aides concede there is little they an do during the next six weeks to break Perot's grip on the public's attention. But that did not stop the President from calling a rare prime-time press conference last week in a vain bid for network coverage. Only CNN and C-SPAN broadcast the event, which was designed to showcase an angry President pressing a reluctant Congress...
Still, the goal of breaking the military's grip on political life is not yet within reach. The leading candidate to succeed Suchinda as Prime Minister is Somboon Rahong, a member of parliament but also a former air force officer. Opposition politicians said he was simply fronting for the supreme commander, Air Chief Marshal Kaset Rojananil, and therefore was unacceptable. They warned that his appointment would set off more street demonstrations. Another potential flash point is the last-minute amnesty Suchinda handed himself and his military cronies, a step many Thais believe is illegal...