Word: paces
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Even more important than dollars or polls is the emerging sense that Buchanan is setting the pace in this race. He's the one with the resonant message; he's the one with the most passionate following, the true believers, who won't drift off to support Lamar Alexander or Arlen Specter if the weather changes in New Hampshire. And most telling of all, he's the one the other candidates have started to copy. Pat Buchanan is fast becoming the Perot of 1996, the maverick with a message who probably can't win but certainly won't go away...
...case, Holbrooke intends to drive the participants at the same breakneck pace he has been forcing since mid-August. Over the weekend he was polishing a full draft of a proposed peace treaty that Christopher expects to put before the three Presidents as soon as talks begin. Holbrooke's tempo has some critics, notably in the French Foreign Ministry. They contend it results in the papering over of contentious details that may crop up later to wreck a seeming agreement. Holbrooke's answer is that stopping to iron out all the details is a sure formula for having negotiations...
...that pace be kept up? The omens are not entirely favorable. One indispensable condition for peace does finally exist: a battlefield stalemate that all sides would run a big risk trying to break. On the other hand, the three Presidents are coming into the talks with very different goals that will not be easy to reconcile. A senior U.S. official sums them up this...
...that the vote is going pretty much the same as the general election, meaning that the ANC is gaining most of the seats. But a surprise seems to be the number of black independent candidates who are winning local races. It appears that many blacks are disillusioned with the pace of change coming from the government, and are putting their faith in these independents. The white National Party hasn't been completely shut out. They will maintain an overall majority in the western Cape area of the country...
...there is trouble in this seeming paradise. Beneath the calm surface, tensions are seething among scientists, fishermen, tour operators, smugglers and politicians. The hostilities threaten not only to disrupt the peaceful pace of Galapagos life but, far worse, to upset the fragile environmental balance in one of the world's most cherished ecological reserves...