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BEIJING: Just a few weeks before the U.S. Secretary of State is set to arrive in Beijing, expected to raise human-rights issues, Chinese authorities released dissident Chen Ziming. Ziming, who has cancer, and was jailed in 1989, arrived home Tuesday night on medical parole. In 1989 he was sentenced...
The generally conservative Morgan wants to eliminate what he says are tax loopholes for special interests and to encourage investment by indexing the capital-gains tax to inflation and by improving the tax treatment of IRAs. On crime, he wants to abolish parole for violent offenders and try as adults...
Unlike his Democratic opponent--and many Republicans--Gryska, a former chief surgical resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, is pro-choice. But with a socially moderate and fiscally conservative platform, he calls himself a "Weld Republican." Gryska vows to be tough on crime, abolishing parole for violent criminals, and supports Bob...
Though this district leans Republican, a solid base of blue-collar Democrats and an enclave of wealthy liberals make Forbes vulnerable. But he retains his conservative base with proposals to end parole for armed criminals and grant middle-class tax breaks. On the Armed Services Committee he has fought for...
Sybert almost defeated 10-term Anthony Beilenson in 1994. He talks tough on crime--favoring the death penalty and abolition of parole--and immigration. Like his opponent, however, Sybert is pro-choice, pro-environment and in favor of his district's seceding from Los Angeles.