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This public humiliation of officers on duty was a breaking point. Many policemen simply took off their uniforms and stayed at home. The much feared police chief of the capital district, Lieut. Colonel Michel Francois, fled across the border to the Dominican Republic, turning the former Big Three of dictators into a diminished...
...Republican Vision Man. Furthermore, with a demoralized Democratic Party facing ominous elections, Newton Leroy Gingrich may soon get a lofty title to match his aspiration -- Speaker of the House in the 104th Congress. (Gingrich is already set to be leader of House Republicans once minority leader Robert Michel retires at the end of the year.) If the G.O.P. has a net gain of at least 23 new seats, Republicans will have more than 200 votes in the House for the first time in 36 years. That would give conservatives effective, if not numerical, control of Congress on many...
...this version of Show Boat does ring with excellent voices nevertheless: Mark Jacoby's charming but feckless Ravenal, Rebecca Luker's steely Magnolia, Gretha Boston's ebullient Queenie and Lonette McKee's glorious Julie. (As Joe, Michel Bell sports an impressive basso profundo, but spoils Ol' Man River with a needlessly mannered performance.) Still, it is a relative nonsinger, John McMartin as Cap'n Andy, who is the surprising hit of the show: his desperate reenactment of the interrupted play-within-a-play, The Parson's Bride, is a comic highlight that stays in the mind...
...same time admitted that theirs was less a governing agenda than a battle plan. They showed the Democrats what they will be up against -- in numbers and intensity -- in the fall campaign and afterward. Few of the hopefuls sweating on the Capitol steps last Tuesday resembled Bob Michel, the decent, gentle, gee-whillikers Congressman from Illinois who retires this year as House minority leader. Like Gingrich, the G.O.P. hopefuls see themselves as mujahedin and Clinton as the Great Satan. As a smiling Gingrich told Clinton during a recent White House meeting, "We will do everything we can to beat...
Having failed to pass serious campaign-finance reform, the Congress was steaming toward almost certain approval of new rules against taking free meals, golf trips and other goodies from lobbyists. Bob Michel wryly observed that soon a lobbyist's PAC won't be able to buy him a Big Mac -- but can give him a $5,000 campaign contribution...