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But except for the gruff, grandfather-like pleas of Surgeon General C. Everett Koop to encourage "safe sex" and AIDS education in the schools, the politicians and government officials have been almost universally silent.
"I mean to win this election," Bush said repeatedly last week. And Dukakis finally heeded his worried supporters' pleas to take a more combative, aggressive stance against Bush.
( Bush, who was worried about his party's right wing, had hoped for consensus, but there was none to be found. The week before the convention, Bush asked his top advisers to list their three favorites for Vice President: none of the seven lists agreed. Bob Dole and Jack Kemp...
Zia seized power in July 1977, 14 months after being appointed army chief of staff by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Benazir's father. "I am a military man," the general said at the time. "I will step down soon." But he did not. He had the popular Bhutto arrested...
Give Ferdinand Marcos credit for trying. The deposed President of the Philippines has attempted everything from flattery to pleas for sympathy to plotting a coup d'etat. But Marcos' successor, Corazon Aquino, has blocked all his maneuvers to return home. So Marcos, 70, is trying a new tactic. According to...