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...most frequently uttered five syllables in Washington these days are "bipartisanship." That tender word is part of the vocabulary of the honeymoon between a new Congress and a new Administration, especially when the pillow talk turns to foreign policy. It is meant to conjure up the happy image of Republicans and Democrats hand in hand at the water's edge. Actually, the word is doubly misleading, both in its evocation of the distant past and in its implications for the near future...
...years later, we tapped Morrison for the job of bringing that tragic, pulsating, mythical year into perspective for our first TIME pictorial collector's edition, 1968: The Year That Shaped a Generation. A true child of the '60s, Morrison, now special projects editor, had even planned to spend his honeymoon at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, until his bride-to-be put her foot down. In 1968, he says, "we tried to capture something of the year's amazing, compelling electricity...
NATION: Beset by partisan sniping and embarrassing rumors, Bush finds that the honeymoon may already be over...
...Feisty House Democratic Whip Tony Coelho tells newspeople after the first congressional leadership meeting with Bush, "Very harmonious. No dissent. This is the first day of the honeymoon, and it was very hopeful and exciting, just like a honeymoon." Question from the edge: "Come on, Congressman, when do you get tough?" Slow smile over the little scrapper's face and a glint in his bright, crafty eyes. "When he gets specific, we'll get tough. About budget time." Interpretation: if Coelho couldn't fight, he'd go back to California...
...Soviet economy grew by 4.4% last year, farms and factories failed to produce enough quality goods to satisfy consumer demand. With wages now growing faster than productivity, inflation threatens. Other figures indicated that exports fell by 2% in 1988, while imports (much of it food) rose by 6.5%. "The honeymoon for Gorbachev has ended at home," says a Moscow-based Western diplomat. "Gorbachev's been in power too long to blame it all on Brezhnev...