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...major beneficiary in the balloting was Constantine Mitsotakis' conservative New Democracy Party, which won 145 seats, just six short of control in the 300-seat Parliament. The New Democrats campaigned on the promise of "catharsis," which included investigating and prosecuting political bigwigs implicated in several cases of alleged fraud that involved millions of dollars, including the embezzlement of more than $210 million from the Bank of Crete by its former owner George Koskotas...
After spending nearly four months kicking the tires of Western defense and diplomacy, George Bush last week finally climbed into the driver's seat. The reason for the President's triumph at the NATO summit was simple. His new proposal on conventional forces restored a degree of credibility and seriousness to the American conduct of arms control that has been missing for a decade -- and that is a crucial ingredient in the leadership of the Western alliance, especially in the age of Gorbachev...
Adding yet more fire to the proceedings was the reappearance of Boris Yeltsin, the crusty, populist former leader of Moscow's Communist Party. Earlier, he had failed to win a seat in the new Supreme Soviet, and that, it | seemed, was the end of his thrust for position. But then Deputy Alexei Kazannick, an obscure university professor from Siberia, rose and announced that he would relinquish his place to Yeltsin. As applause rang through the hall, Gorbachev watched impassively from the raised tribunal before he told the hushed assembly, "In principle, I support such a proposal...
Yeltsin got the seat -- and lost no time in pursuing his favorite themes. Sounding very much like the leader of the opposition, he charged that Gorbachev's recent self-criticism "did not absolve him of responsibility for the failure of his reforms." Punching away at the party apparatus and its privileges, he urged that the "word nomenklatura" -- a reference to the 3 million or so holders of top jobs allocated by the party -- "be dropped from our lexicon." Yeltsin also called for election of a new Central Committee and demanded that the President submit to an annual vote of confidence...
Although Republicans are a daunting 184 votes short of a majority in the 435-seat House, Gingrich has his sights trained on a full-fledged G.O.P. takeover. Working with his political soul mate, Republican National Committee Chairman Lee Atwater, he also wants to see his party recapture the Senate, as well as statehouses and city halls all over the nation. But unlike Atwater, whose blues-playing, guitar-strumming sideswipes can be entertaining, Gingrich approaches his mission with a humorless holier-than-thou style that makes him easy to dislike...