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Saying that he cannot resist the call of his volunteers, though, Perot pledged run on. He has stunned the experts with his popularity and pulled the rug out from his volunteers. Now, it seems, he's brushed the rug off and laid it back on the floor...
...thinks he is invincible, but he is basically the kind of kind who won't go to court for a shoplifting hearing because he "[doesn't] feel like it." Jon feels no remorse for his actions, and while Jimmy has a conscience, he is too disaffected or disillusioned to resist the same daily appeal of small-time crime...
Debates still rage in Moscow about whether hard-liners might try another coup to restore something like the old communist regime. But the real question is, Why should they bother? Already, conservatives -- in a post-Soviet context, those who resist change in the old Kremlin ways -- have been staging a kind of "creeping coup." They have been worming their way into key positions in President Boris Yeltsin's administration and are beginning to bend policy toward continued, or even increased, state control of the economy. Crows Arkady Volsky, head of the anti-Yeltsin faction: "The policies of the reformist government...
...reduce its agricultural subsidies to a level well below the largesse that the West showers on its farmers. Worse, in order to keep their countries operating, democratic leaders in the old Soviet orbit have to rely on the army of apparatchiks who ran the communist system and who naturally resist reforms that would dilute their power...
Gaidar nonetheless is pressing ahead with his plan to put all small business and housing into private hands by 1994, and at least 60% of big business by 1995, initially through the voucher plan. Actually, some of Civic Union's supporters may not resist: they hope to buy up many of the vouchers and cement their control of businesses by becoming the official owners as well as the managers...