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Late last week both Chernomyrdin and Chubais put out the word that the President is on the mend. As if to reinforce that perception, Yeltsin announced on Friday that he was opposed to any "hasty" changes in the constitution. He also made a couple of appearances at the Kremlin but they served only to underscore the harsh fact that Yeltsin's primary task these days is simply to keep himself upright and ticking. If he can manage that, the Kremlin may be able to stave off an early election and avoid succumbing to the impulse to tamper with an already...
...accounts, Russian president Boris Yeltsin is on the mend. He was released from the hospital last week to continue his recovery from a bout of pneumonia at his dacha outside Moscow. Compared with the serious heart problems and the complex bypass surgery he endured last fall, his present illness seems minor...
...assured Johnson that while the Post would not break with its policy of nonendorsement, she "was for him" personally and even wanted to contribute to his campaign--a conversation that "embarrasses me now." So does a "sniveling little note" she later wrote in an attempt to mend fences with Vice President Spiro Agnew. She attributes the gesture to "that good old-fashioned encumbrance of mine, the desire to please...
Greed and lust for power by the political parties have deterred serious consideration of campaign-finance reform [NATION, Nov. 11]. It is time to stop the rhetoric and reduce the role of special-interest money in politics. Meaningful campaign reform will help mend our broken democracy; out-of-control money-power moves us closer to being a plutocracy. The most thoughtful and eloquent promoter of campaign-finance reform is retiring New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley. Come January 1997, one of the best things President Clinton could do would be to appoint Bradley to head a bipartisan commission to come...
CIVIL RIGHTS/GAY RIGHTS Supports affirmative action, but his "mend it, don't end it" policy narrows the scope of some government preference programs. Opposes the California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), which would bar state affirmative-action efforts. Favors federal statute barring discrimination against gays, but signed law against gay marriage...