Word: pols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thoughts are really on his kind of politics. There are no political opponents, only enemies to be eliminated; no debate, only plots to survive. "If you lead with your big pieces, you put them in danger." He knows about danger. He followed and abandoned the genocidal dictator Pol Pot, survived the Khmer Rouge's killing fields and civil war to become master of a country haunted by 1.7 million unavenged ghosts. For Hun Sen, power means survival, and it has only two settings: all or nothing...
STILL DEAD, THOUGH Pol Pot died of an overdose, not a heart attack as Cambodian officials claimed last April, according to the Far Eastern Economic Review. The late dictator swallowed tranquilizers and antimalarial pills upon discovering that a Khmer Rouge comrade, Ta Mok, planned to turn him over to the U.S. for trial. Ta Mok offered to make Pol Pot available in March, the article by journalist Nate Thayer claimed. But U.S. officials declined, saying they needed more time to prepare to arrest...
...waged on three fronts: First, a group of lawyers will discuss historical precedents and constitutional standards for impeachment, concluding of course that they do not apply here. Next comes the political front, in which three Rodino-committee Democrats will invoke the ghost of Nixon and plead with their counterparts, pol to pol. Then, more lawyers: A third panel takes a long (and presumably critical) look at the facts of Starr's case. And Wednesday? You guessed it -- still more lawyers, followed by closing statements that should last well into the evening...
WASHINGTON: Gray Davis and Al Gore are going to get along great. The new governor of California -- its first Democratic one in 16 years -- is a mild-mannered, nuts-and-bolts pol just like Al. He's now in charge of redistricting California after the 2000 census. And he just happens to have 52 electoral votes to throw around. "Now, whoever wins the 2000 Democratic primary gets to glom onto Davis," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson, "instead of having to spend a lot of time actually campaigning in California." Not to mention that after the Democrats' surprising success Tuesday...
...parted just so, the Phi Beta Kappa lawyer has the perpetual look of a nice young man--from his gung-ho smile down to his University Shop loafers. But for some, even in his own party, Inglis is a little too much hall monitor and not enough of a pol. At home he chastised conservatives for flying the Confederate flag over the statehouse and for the G.O.P.'s tradition of racially divisive politics. In Washington, where he sleeps on an air mattress in his office, a sign scolds lobbyists who want to buy his vote. He blasted his party...