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...ferociously than anyone else. As the overseer of the Kurd safe haven established after the 1991 Gulf War, the U.S. is only tangentially involved, its main interest in the messy struggle being to provide a counterweight--or deliver a coup de grace--against Saddam. Handed an engraved invitation to regain some power in his own northern territory, Saddam saw his opportunity and took...
...elected. "He wants to be remembered as a President who alleviated human suffering and improved the life chances of the poor," says Wilson. But any further effort to create jobs will depend not only on whether Clinton wins a second term but also on whether the Democrats regain control of Congress from Gingrich and his henchmen. By then the President may have had time to read and digest all the lessons of Wilson's profound and disturbing new book...
...cutting capital-gains taxes for middle-class people who sell their primary residence for less than $500,000, as well as with adding a tax credit for employers who hire welfare recipients. Democratic polling showed that the President slipped at least 5 points after the Republican Convention. "We'll regain every one of those points by the end of our convention," says Clinton strategist Dick Morris, "and we hope to have a 20-point lead by Labor...
...spurred by tax cuts would make deep spending cuts unnecessary, got White House chief of staff Donald Regan to persuade Ronald Reagan to oppose it. The bill died after Reagan allied himself with none other than Democratic Speaker Tip O'Neill to do it in. The episode helped Democrats regain control of the Senate the next year. Dole aides said Kemp would never be forgiven...
...home run" and praising his "character and courage." Two weeks later, only hours after the votes were counted, Nixon wrote to President-elect Clinton, offering congratulations and declaring that he had the "character" to be a world leader. The old lion was betting that he could regain more influence through the neophyte in the White House than he had from Bush, who had studiously ignored him. He was right...