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Four punishing years into her six-year term, Aquino remains surprisingly undaunted by the precarious state of her country and her tenuous grip on the helm. Her government is struggling to cope with a store of major problems -- economic, political and security-related -- which have created a growing crisis of confidence among liberal activists over the ability of fragile democratic institutions to deliver reform...
Until federal agents and local police enticed him into smoking crack cocaine with a former girlfriend in a hotel room last January, Marion Barry had a grip on Washington's city hall that seemed so secure that he was referred to as "mayor for life." But last week, in the midst of jury selection for his trial on drug-possession and perjury charges, Barry called it quits. To remove the "shadow" of his legal difficulties from the election of his successor, he declared that he would not seek a fourth term. "Many of my supporters and political polls have indicated...
Once again North Carolina seemed in the grip of political schizophrenia. The calm and articulate Gantt, a former two-term mayor of Charlotte, may appeal to the progressive voters who gave the state a reputation for moderation by electing such Democrats as Terry Sanford, first as a forward-looking Governor and in 1986 as North Carolina's other Senator. The tart-tongued Helms, on the other hand, has won three terms by pushing hot-button hard-right issues -- pornography, school prayer, busing -- among whites in more rural parts of the state. To have a shot at Helms, local experts...
...world but produced nothing to improve the miserable daily lot of his people. He granted greater freedoms, but those liberties added fuel to the militant nationalism now threatening the fabric of the state. Yet in the midst of his failure to invigorate the economic system, Gorbachev's own grip on power grew stronger after every test. There was, everyone said, no alternative to Gorbachev...
...that the entire region is growing dangerously impatient with the political stalemate. The shock wave spread to Jordan, where a Palestinian attacked a busload of tourists, wounding ten, and four Palestinians died after thousands took to the streets in the worst rioting since April 1989, threatening King Hussein's grip on the troubled kingdom. In Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak warned that settlement of Soviet Jews in the disputed territories threatened "to put the whole region on the verge of a new bloody confrontation...