Word: leaders
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...year. Then they left the pay- for-ethics package in place for the House (along with the raises for judges and bureaucrats), but rejected it for themselves. At week's end, after three attempts by Republican Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina to scuttle the raise, Majority Leader George Mitchell realized he did not have the votes to win approval of the House plan...
...Polish Solidarity leader, and the world, may have to wait considerably longer for any clear signal about what kind of post-cold war Europe the U.S. envisions, and what it may do to help create one. The progressive dissolution of the onetime Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe, symbolized by the opening of the Berlin Wall, raises the possibility of a historic turn toward peace and cooperation -- but also the danger of churning instability. So the questions are piling up: What can the West do to strengthen the democratic movements in Poland, Hungary and East Germany? What sort of relationship...
These questions, of course, press on European capitals too. Yet the U.S., as leader of the Western alliance, has both the chance and the obligation to try to frame a coordinated policy. Alas, that calls for a vision of a new European order -- and "the vision thing" has never been George Bush's forte. So far, his Administration has shown no inclination to do anything except stand on the sidelines and cheer. Some Bush officials argue that it is all Washington needs...
...credit should go to Leipzig (pop. 567,000), which has emerged as the driving force for reform. Through more than a month of spontaneous, peaceful demonstrations, which often brought more than half the city's population into the streets, Leipzig's workers precipitated the ouster of repressive party leader Erich Honecker and helped inspire the historic breach of the Berlin Wall. "They call us 'the Leipzig Miracle,' " says Alfred Richter, 38, a supervisor in a hotel kitchen whose wife and two small children joined in the protests. "But it was caused by all of us little people...
...expected, was the South West African People's Organization, or SWAPO, the Marxist-led group that conducted a 23-year guerrilla war for independence. But SWAPO won only 57% of the vote and 41 seats, far short of the 85% prediction by Sam Nujoma, 60, the group's leader, or of the 67% that would have let SWAPO shape the constitution...