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Krenz, who had long been expected to succeed his mentor, will get no honeymoon, since the change at the top does not alter the crisis down below. Given Krenz's hard-line convictions, there is little expectation that he will be the leader who will guide East Germany along the path toward social and economic reform. Krenz may turn out to be only a transitional figure, put in place, like the Soviet Union's Konstantin Chernenko, to warm the chair for a more visionary thinker. "The real reformers will take over power in the next six to twelve months," predicts...
...their own: the convoluted agony of the pay raise, the forced resignations of Speaker Jim Wright and whip Tony Coelho, and now the sex scandal involving Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank. Nor is the climate right for combat, with the economy perking along and the President enjoying an extended honeymoon. Grouses former party chairman Bob Strauss: "This is not the time to take on George Bush head...
They planned to honeymoon on the island of Cephalonia, where Papandreou could recuperate from pneumonia. But he remained in Athens this week as the new, conservative-led government began investigation of financial scandals in the administration he headed for eight years...
...polls reflect a dramatic jump in approval. Gallup has Bush at 70%, up 14 points since May, 10 points higher than Ronald Reagan when he approached the six-month mark. A TIME/CNN poll taken last Wednesday shows Bush cruising along at 63% approval at a point when the presidential honeymoon usually comes to an end and a slide begins. Pundits have called this a "second honeymoon" and "Teflon II." Neither seems quite right since we now know that Bush takes showers with his dog -- hardly the stuff of romance...
Other helpful categories include "The Horrible Wedding" ("Should the divorce lawyers accompany you on the honeymoon?"), "Conversation" ("Practically anything you say will seem amusing if you're on all fours"), and "The Hip Funeral" ("How to tell when your friends are dead...