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...with another this month in California. The President's pollster, Mark Penn, has signed on to the race. And all this for a candidate with considerable baggage, including several brushes with ethics scandals, whose prospects were summed up as a "kamikaze mission" by the state's senior Democratic pol, Lieutenant Governor Bob Bullock. So what gives? Friendship, for one thing: Mauro and the Clintons go back to their work together on the '72 McGovern race in Texas. But friendship will take you only so far in politics. With handicappers rating the popular G.O.P. Governor George W. Bush...
...dump his protege--the fate of two previous heirs apparent. But there's also a sense in China that the relatively nonideological, technocratic Jiang may be the right leader for a China bursting with political, social and economic tensions, that what China needs now is an adroit, adaptable pol rather than a towering titan...
...rare interview, Pol Pot says he's not sorry for the things he's done (TIME Daily...
HONG KONG: Pol Pot sleeps easily, not haunted by the legions of skulls littering his country?s killing fields. That's according to what purports to be his first interview in more than 20 years. Despite leading a bloody purge that is believed to have killed more than 1 million Cambodians, Pol Pot says "My conscience is clear." In the exclusive interview, to be published in full later this week by the Far Eastern Economic Review, Pol Pot defends his orders to execute political opponents, although he disputes the claim that millions had died. ?I came to carry...
Roger Rosenblatt only touched on the tragedy that befell the Cambodian people at the hands of Pol Pot and his followers [ESSAY, Aug. 18]. It's difficult to imagine the hardship and cruelty that Cambodians endured during Pol Pot's reign of terror. But Rosenblatt apparently let his imagination run wild when he blamed the U.S. bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam War as the destabilizing influence that allowed Pol Pot to flourish. I could have sworn we were bombing the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops that sought refuge in Cambodia after attacking our own troops in South Vietnam...