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That does not exempt him from charges of hypocrisy. ``Newt Gingrich complained about the corrupt system when he was in the minority,'' says Fred Wertheimer of Common Cause, who six years ago gave crucial support to Gingrich's effort to oust Speaker Jim Wright for ethics violations. ``Now he's running that corrupt system, and it's politics as usual...
...Minister Silvio Berlusconi today said he would stay in office to face a no-confidence vote in parliament, rather than resign and plot a political comeback, as one of his chief aides predicted yesterday. Instead, the media magnate warned Italian lawmakers in a speech that voting this week to oust his seven-month-old coalition would turn voters against them. If he loses the no-confidence vote, Berlusconi said, he'll ask President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro to call another election to select Italy's 54th government in 49 years. The controversy revolves around a high-profile criminal inquiry into bribery...
Zhirinovsky: No, he actually prevented it. He realized that when Chernomyrdin left, he would be next. Yeltsin knows that Russia is now at a dead end, so they decided to oust...
Control of Congress also will flood Republican campaign treasuries with even more special-interest contributions, which will be useful in defending newly won seats and seeking to oust Clinton in 1996. But there is a danger of voter backlash if the G.O.P. panders too cravenly with legislation designed to enrich its traditional supporters in Big Business and finance. Already last week, Representative Thomas Bliley of Virginia, whose constituency is the heart of tobacco-growing country, reassured cigarette-company executives that + they need not fear any further embarrassing hearings or new antismoking laws when he takes over Energy and Commerce...
...role in the nation's life. "I was angry that every problem identified by Washington was considered a crisis and that the only answer they could come up with was to throw more money at it," said Bill Kovach, 39, a Chicago medical-supplies salesman and Democrat who helped oust Dan Rostenkowski last week...