Word: mavericks
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Partly because of his clashes with the party apparat, Yeltsin became known as a maverick while running the Moscow party committee: he was outspoken, impetuous and disdainful of authority. He took on the entire machine in 1989 to run as Moscow's delegate-at-large for the Congress of People's Deputies. The contest was the first nationwide multicandidate parliamentary election in the Soviet Union since 1918, and Yeltsin's combative campaign won him the support of 89% of Moscow's 6 million voters, an astonishing accolade from the usually cynical and apathetic populace...
...Weicker, who earned a reputation as a stubborn and short-tempered maverick during three terms in the U.S. Senate, the solution was obvious: cut the sales levy and impose a 6% income tax. Addressing the legislature in February, Weicker argued that without tax reform, "our Connecticut, as we envision it, would slip away." But the lack of party ties that made it possible for Weicker to conceive a tax that neither Democrats nor Republicans would propose doomed the idea. With no partisan motive for aiding Weicker, the leaders of both parties helped defeat his plan last month...
During the cold war's long struggle, when one superpower's gain in territory or influence was a loss for the other, the maverick communist state of Yugoslavia was a strategic target for both the U.S. and the Soviet Union. But the region's ethnic hatreds have been around much longer than that, epitomized by the rancorous quarrels that touched off World...
...Meles spoke too soon. Within 24 hours his soldiers, who had just taken over the capital of Addis Ababa, were again firing their guns. This time they battled not government forces but thousands of civilians who had taken to the streets to protest the sudden ascendancy of Meles' maverick band. It was a curious reaction, considering that Meles' troops had deposed Mengistu Haile Mariam, the onetime lieutenant colonel who had ruled Ethiopia for 14 bloody years. The demonstrations and crackdowns left at least 10 dead and an additional 400 wounded...
...potential summit is up in the air: the recent U.S. embassy fire will probably force the two leaders to hold most of their talks in Leningrad. That at least would avoid a touchy problem. Gorbachev advisers have told Washington they don't want Bush to meet with Boris Yeltsin, maverick leader of the Russian republic...