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...rights compromise with Congress -- and none too soon. Bush hardly relished the prospect of vetoing a civil rights bill in the same fortnight that the Senate nearly disintegrated over the Clarence Thomas nomination and an ex-Klansman named David Duke became the Republican Party candidate in Louisiana's gubernatorial runoff...
Last week heated Duke-Edwards arguments reverberated throughout the state, from radio talk shows to restaurants, bars and business offices. A record 64,000 people turned out at the last minute to register to vote in the Nov. 16 runoff election. Audrey Triche, a computer operator in Jefferson Parish, near New Orleans, plans to vote for Duke. "We want a change," she says. "We need it, but where do we go for it? Everybody agrees with what he's saying. Why should you come to work when you can pick up a welfare check? That's why I'm going...
...first popularly elected head of government in Russia's 1,000-year history. The eventual outcome of last week's presidential election was never in doubt, but there was some question whether Yeltsin would win the 50%-plus majority -- against five other candidates -- necessary to avoid a runoff. Those doubts dissolved almost as soon as voters began entering polling places stretching across the Russian republic's eleven time zones. Though the official count of more than 70 million mostly paper ballots will not be announced until late this week, informal tallies indicated he had won in a landslide with about...
...Muslim who is chairman of the Russian parliament's Council of Nationalities. Opposition to Yeltsin's sovereignty campaign has been particularly fierce in Russia's ethnic enclaves. Bakatin's reputation as a reformer is also sufficiently solid that he might draw enough moderate votes from Yeltsin to force a runoff election, which will take place if no candidate receives 50% of the vote...
...supposed to kill but also to useful bugs, to the earthworms that aerate the soil and to pets and people. Do-it-yourselfers don't read warning labels or take precautions to protect themselves, and they use up to six times as much pesticide per acre as farmers do. Runoff of fertilizers from farmlands has tainted water supplies, and though industry experts say it doesn't happen, critics fear similar troubles from suburban lawn runoff...