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...Wary of the President's batting score beating the GOP to the punch on their issues, Republicans immediately began questioning the overture and in some cases labeling it nothing more than a political sham. Clinton, who seems more intent than ever in moving towards the center and banishing the reformist stance he held early in his first term, defended his proposal, saying it was not an attempt to steal GOP thunder but a sincere attempt to approach their budgetary demands. Reemphasizing his desire to work with the GOP, he added, "The only way we can actually balance the budget...
Bigham, owner of Thursdays Too restaurant in Rock Hill, burst onto the political scene in 1994, coming within four points of beating incumbent John Spratt--who had never won with less than 61% of the vote. Better known than two years ago, Bingham is determined to carry his reformist platform to victory, advocating term limits, citizen legislators and limitations on PAC contributions, while linking his opponent to Clinton's "liberal agenda...
...days, hopes ran high: A new reformist government, headed by the "moderate" communist Imre Nagy, held out the hope of a more democratic, independent Hungary--"socialism with a human face," as the leaders of the Prague spring of 1968 were to proclaim. But in Budapest as later in Prague, that hope ended in disaster. On November 4, a huge fleet of Soviet tanks entered the Hungarian capital and over the next few days destroyed large portions of it. Imre Nagy and several members of his cabinet were tried for treason and eventually executed. Thousands more were imprisoned or killed during...
Curious and curiouser. Had the Communist propaganda about 1956 as the work of "fascist counter-revolutionaries" been right, after all? No: Nagy was not a fascist but a reformist communist, as were many of his followers. There is no doubt, however, that some of the 1956 "freedom fighters" were far to the right of Nagy, and some were probably admirers of Horthy. That is one reason why, in today's Hungary, it has become difficult to regard the 1956 revolution with the uncomplicated enthusiasm of pre-"Change" days. One young woman whose uncle disappeared in the October battles wrote...
Television is largely controlled by Yeltsin, and Lebed began appearing more frequently on news shows in the last weeks of the campaign. In addition, his commercials seemed to flood the airwaves. Alexei Golovkov, chief of staff to the reformist Cabinet in the early 1990s, was recruited from the government benches in the Duma to help mastermind Lebed's efforts. One major Moscow weekly received 2 billion rubles from the Yeltsin campaign to cover the cost of running Lebed's election propaganda...