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...plenum was not marked this time by bitter personal attacks against Gorbachev. His opponents, said Sergeyev, a professor of political economics at Moscow's Academy of Labor and Social Relations, were trying to stage "a revolt on their knees." There were angry outcries in the hall during the closed sessions, he said, but when the time came to vote, Gorbachev always + won. The General Secretary had trumped his critics by embracing their call for a special congress before the end of the year, thus deflecting their attempts to force an immediate schism in the party or a change of leadership...
...Likud Party leader also has a fallback position. If the U.S. pushes him too hard, the far-right members of his ruling coalition will revolt. "My party is poised to topple the government if it comes to that," says Elyakim Ha'etzni, a member of the extremist Tehiya Party and a West Bank settler. If that happens, the peace process would languish while Israel prepared for new elections, which could well produce an even more hard-line government...
...right you've got the fiscal conservatives, who ever since Proposition 13 ((which launched the tax revolt in 1978 by cutting property taxes)) have said, 'We don't want to pay for growth,' " he says. "On the left you've got the liberal environmentalists. And then you've got everybody in between, who are simply sick and tired of traffic congestion, overcrowded schools, crime and beaches that are polluted by sewage spills...
...claims are unwilling to promote the kind of "public values" -- self-reliance, responsibility, family stability and hard work -- that most Americans still hold dear. Fragmented by an intraparty civil war that began in the 1960s, Democrats misconstrued voter complaints about crime as racism and mistook the tax revolt of the 1970s for selfishness. Eventually, George Bush crucified Michael Dukakis when the Democratic nominee refused to comprehend why support for the Pledge of Allegiance mattered deeply to voters...
...paramount importance, safety: the camps will be protected by as many as 10,000 soldiers from the U.S., 5,000 from Britain, 1,300 from France and 1,000 each from the Netherlands and Italy. from any attempt by Saddam Hussein to exact bloody vengeance for the Kurds' failed revolt...