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...them. The Congressional Budget Office quietly informed budget negotiators that the economic boom would produce an unexpected surge in tax revenues that would shrink the deficit by an estimated $225 billion over five years. As if to confirm it was not a mirage, evidence of the economy's strength kept emerging all week. First came news that during the first quarter, gross domestic product was up 5.6%, the biggest gain in a decade. Then came word that joblessness during April hit a 24-year low, falling to 4.9%. That kind of vigor promised to pay for much of what both...
...R.N.C. three weeks before the triumphant G.O.P. takeover of Congress. Young received a taste of the victory in a meeting with Newt Gingrich a few days before the Speaker took the House gavel. The event was arranged as a "personal favor" to Barbour, according to a record kept by the Speaker. And that was not the last favor. A year later, when Barbour was invited to meet Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen in Beijing, he took along Young, giving an aviation salesman rare access to the world's fastest-growing aircraft customer...
...rebelled in the face of a tribal pogrom supported by Mobutu's army. Led by Kabila, who has been involved in uprisings in Zaire for 30 years, well-armed fighters not only halted the pogrom but swiftly overwhelmed the government forces in the region. Kabila's Tutsi-led forces kept right on winning, and are now poised to take over the whole country...
Blair's historic achievement was to exorcise the voters' fear of Labour. They could put him in power confident in his pledges that taxes will not go up, spending will be kept in strict control, Thatcher's antiunion laws will remain in place, the privatization of Britain's state assets will continue, and socialism is dead, buried and forgotten. This was, in essence, a constitutional vote by the people to keep the two-party system alive, to insist that the other fellow be given a chance. It was a vote for fair play, balance, honesty, high seriousness and better ethical...
...government looks to America to improve the economy, moving on from the agony of war first against the French and then against the Americans is still proving difficult for many people. Although the official line from the government is that the war is history, resentment, though usually kept hidden, persists. Most people do not talk about the fighting, yet nearly every family's household altar has a photograph of a relative killed in the war. Signs are everywhere that the recovery is well under way. The infamous Hanoi Hilton, where American POW's like Peterson were held and tortured...