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...right-wing ideologues has ventured full-bore critiques. A 25th-anniversary report, put out last week by a task force of the usual Establishment suspects (Vartan Gregorian, Joe Califano, Tim Wirth and so on), provoked intriguing newspaper headlines (OVERHAUL PROPOSED, teased the Washington Post), but its reformist manifesto -- the 351 local PBS stations should get less federal money, the central programming apparatus should get more -- turned out to be tepid and intramural, a birthday wish list posing as tough-minded scrutiny...
...resident thinkers at Washington's Institute for Policy Studies -- and they'll tell you there hasn't been any lurching in their direction. A few tentative little steps perhaps -- abolition of the "gag rule" on abortions, the signing of the "motor voter" and family-leave bills, some vague reformist intentions here and there -- followed by an inexorable stagger to the right. Even after all the bean counting, for example, and despite the near appointment of Lani Guinier, Clinton is surrounded with moderate white fellows like Bentsen, Rubin, Panetta and Christopher; and his Cabinet contains more millionaires per capita than either...
Guatemalans took to the streets to protest erstwhile reformist President Jorge Serrano Elias' seizure of power and dismissal of the country's supreme court. The court declared his actions illegal, and the U.S. cut off most...
...1980S CHINA'S REFORMIST LEADERSHIP TRIED to keep top posts in the ruling Communist Party separate from those of the government. That campaign reversed a tradition established by no less a figure than Mao Zedong, who served simultaneously as party chief and head of state from 1954 to 1959. Now the pendulum seems headed back toward the direction of double dipping -- and a reconsolidation of official power in party hands...
Another beneficiary of the scandal is Mario Segni, 53, a renegade Christian Democrat who wants a referendum on election reform. Says Segni: "Italy has lived through a horrible phase of corruption. The only good sign is that people are finally fed up." Adds Leoluca Orlando, 45, leader of the reformist La Rete party: "The old boys have had their chance. Now they must move aside and let us clean...