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...FATHER Abdul-Wahhab Tbeilah, 58, is a generation removed from the young men who started the revolt, and did not think like them when the uprising erupted. His political sensibilities, like those of other older men in Nablus, had dulled after 21 years of occupation. An auto mechanic, he worked hard to keep his large family in their 400-year-old two-room ancestral home in the Casbah of Nablus. He lived for his children, hoping they would be educated enough someday to become doctors and teachers. Then politics intruded into his quiet life and, given the frequent general strikes...
...democratic the response would be once the suggested legislation was presented for "public discussion" in October. More than 300,000 comments and suggestions flooded in; as a result, 58 out of 117 proposed clauses in the package of constitutional amendments and election laws were modified. Leading the legal revolt was the Baltic republic of Estonia, where the push for political reform has gone the furthest. Estonians feared that the new system would strengthen the authority of the central government and hamper efforts to achieve greater regional autonomy. In an unprecedented challenge to Moscow, the Estonian parliament rejected the constitutional amendments...
...first sign of revolt, interestingly, came from the outside directors who had come to dinner at the Waverly Hotel. Appalled by the gall shown by Johnson, whom one director called a "raider from the inside," a committee of five directors three weeks ago opened the bidding to all comers. First to accept the invitation were the most aggressive LBO artists of all, the Wall Street firm of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Headed by Henry Kravis, 44, and George Roberts, 45, KKR pioneered the leveraged buyout in the 1970s and nurtured it into one of the best-paying financial arrangements...
...rural and industrial heartland could prove resistant to an insurance revolt. Cushioned by strong no-fault plans in some states and, frequently, less crowded highways, Midwesterners have among the lowest auto premiums in the country. Even motorists in such cities as Cleveland and Chicago have lower rates than their counterparts elsewhere. Chicago has extensive mass transit, for one thing, and the city's drivers tend to file fewer lawsuits than drivers in Boston or Los Angeles...
Even so, a spread of the California revolt might compel Congress to get into the regulatory act. "If California takes off," says a congressional aide, "auto insurance could become a significant national issue." In that case, insurers could find that Washington politicians have suddenly become itchy to take the wheel...