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...poll secretly commissioned by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's ruling Labor Party has found that his government would be trounced were general elections held now, Labor and other government sources have told TIME. According to the poll, Labor's share of the 120-seat Knesset would shrink from 44 seats to only 27. The opposition Likud Party, on the other hand, would leap from 32 seats to 47. "There is a great deal of alarm in the party," one Labor official admits. The clandestine poll, unlike far more optimistic recent public surveys, had an unusually large sample size...
Despite the Republican rout last month and the unusual scorn he elicits from some people, Bill Clinton is the most admired man in the U.S., according to a new poll. And First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton tied with Mother Teresa as the woman most admired by Americans, a CNN/USA Today poll of 1,016 American finds. The second most admired man is another controversial Democrat and lately a successful international peace maker: former President Jimmy Carter. Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, former first lady Barbara Bush and talk show host Oprah Winfrey occupy third, fourth, and fifth place...
...Keeping both factions happy is the delicate challenge that confronts Father William Kenneally and thousands of other priests like him throughout the U.S., who must minister to the world's most rambunctious group of Catholics. That tumult is reflected in the way American Catholics view the Pope. A TIME poll shows John Paul II enjoying a 74% approval rating. However, 73% of Catholics also feel they can make up their own minds on such issues as birth control. In fact, 89% believe it is possible to disagree with the Pope and still be a good Catholic -- a stance that John...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 800 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on Dec. 7-8 by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Sampling error is plus or minus 3.5% Not Sures omitted...
Most Americans think Congress should skip hearings on the Whitewater affair -- even though many believe President Clinton probably cut ethical corners, according to a CNN/USA Today Gallup poll released Thursday. Despite a 56 to 41 percent majority against staging hearings -- which incoming Senate Banking Committee chairman Sen. Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.) has threatened to -- the poll found a plurality of the 1,016 respondents (46 percent) thought Clinton had behaved unethically but not illegally in his dealings with an Arakansas thrift. Why keep the Senate gavels in the drawer? Two-thirds said hearings would simply be a political...