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...flexible freeze program means somebody's ox is going to get gored," says Grandy. "People are saying we can't freeze entitlements and we can't touch Medicare, and we certainly can't touch Social Security. That's probably true. But the bottom line is the lion's share of our government spending goes to those benefits, and unless they address them some way, it's going to be damn difficult to balance a budget on remaining expenditures, including defense...
...power, but the Conservatives might. Calling for a return to total apartheid and accusing Botha of betraying white Afrikaners, the Conservatives became the official opposition in Parliament last year. All the party's parliamentary seats are in Transvaal province, the northernmost region settled by the voortrekkers who drove their ox wagons across the veld to escape British rule 150 years ago, but last week the Conservatives challenged the National Party at the local level in all four of the country's provinces...
...could read that very easily." Johnston's classic Dixie charm plays well with Southern Senators. While he does not believe the election will turn on back scratching and horse trading, he has done his share of both, and it could prove helpful. "When a Senator's ox was in the ditch and you helped pull it out, he'll remember that," he says...
Meanwhile, the people of Ethiopia seem rich only in patience. As the sun climbs in the sky, those awaiting food donations outside Wukro quietly sit on their haunches. One man, Gebre Yohanes Haile, 50, has brought along his chief resource: his ox. His family is sick with hunger, and so only he and the animal made the journey. Thus he will receive just one ration: twelve kilos of wheat, two of beans and two of oil. He will sell his ox for $200, and then pay $150 for 100 kilos of grain, twice the usual cost. "We have food...
...National Assembly session called to adopt a new constitution giving him vast powers as President. Suddenly a rocket explosion shook the meeting hall. Three more blasts, each louder than the last, followed during the next few minutes. The beefy Najibullah, 41, known to his countrymen as "the Ox," never flinched as he outlined a policy of national reconciliation aimed at ending eight years of civil war. The rockets killed five people outside the hall, helping the rebels make a brutal point: they are closing in on a government that is growing steadily weaker and more dependent...