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...Sandinistas seemed disinclined to push their protest as far as full- scale revolt. Nevertheless, Chamorro acted wisely to bring a swift halt to the unrest. As the rapid acceleration of violence showed, militants of all political stripes are eager to use any pretext to bash former foes. At the height of last week's confusion, her staunchest conservative critic, Vice President Virgilio Godoy, called for the formation of "Brigades of National Salvation," apparently hoping to deputize the armed groups that clashed with strikers. Not surprisingly, Chamorro's prudence was denounced by Godoy and other conservatives within her 14-party alliance...
Last week, as Gorbachev struggled to bring the party whole and united out of the 28th Congress, the two men figured in one of his most remarkable triumphs -- and abrupt setbacks. After 10 days of harsh attack, he put down the right- wing revolt with a display of personal authority so convincing that his victory might justly have been dubbed "Ligachev's last stand." It was then, from his left flank, that Yeltsin pounced. When the chairman of the Russian parliament announced he was pulling out of the party, he paved the way in effect for a potentially dangerous split...
...shoot-from-the-hip world of Washington prognostication, Kevin Phillips stands out like a Nostradamus. As early as 1969, he foresaw the revolt against permissiveness and the disaffection of white Southerners with the Democratic Party, which helped create "the emerging Republican majority" that has dominated American politics for the past 20 years. Now he has a major new book that could portend good news for the ailing Democrats: the 1990s, he argues, will bring a populist backlash against the greedfest of the 1980s...
Instead of a populist revolt, the legacy of the 1980s appears to be a widespread sense of civic alienation. This fall an estimated two-thirds of the electorate will not go to the polls. Large numbers of American households resisted sending back their census forms, and this year's tax-evasion gap is expected to exceed $100 billion for the first time ever. Faced with the largest financial fiasco in U.S. history -- a savings and loan bailout that could cost up to half a trillion dollars -- American taxpayers have barely uttered a peep. "People don't feel any sense...
...Francisco mayor Dianne Feinstein, winner of the state's Democratic gubernatorial primary. "I think it signals a new day." Even Arthur Laffer, the supply-side economist who was instrumental in enacting Proposition 13, declared the end of the revolution he helped usher in. "If the state where the tax revolt was invented rejects it," he glumly asks, "can Washington be far behind...