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...that the collapse of the communist system and all its ripples through the client states rendered the Soviet leadership virtually helpless when Iraq invaded Kuwait. "There was no able leader comparable to Bush around," says one of the President's advisers. "Gorbachev for all his peace efforts was a sideshow. Margaret Thatcher was gone." The widespread notion that Bush would forever remain in the charismatic shadow of Ronald Reagan or be viewed as a foreign policy amateur compared with Richard Nixon has evaporated. It will probably never rise again...
...only relief in sight is that this sideshow will soon be overshadowed by the main event. On Oct. 22 the state will outline its case for the judge. At the last hearing the visitors' gallery was packed. Soon it will be the hottest ticket in town, and half the town should be speculating about who should play the various characters when the movie is made. Sean Penn as Lyle? Rob Lowe as Erik? But who should play Judalon Smyth and Oziel...
...Just when Mikhail Gorbachev had soundly defeated hard-line rival Yegor Ligachev and secured his control over the divided Communist Party, Yeltsin threw down an even greater challenge. He quit the party, threatening to wrest the embattled reform movement from Gorbachev's hands and turn the party into a sideshow...
...cleanup bill mounts, political mudslinging is likely to increase. "The Government needs a sideshow to shift focus from the cost of dealing with the problem," says Paul Horvitz, a finance professor at the University of Houston. At this point, the biggest new scandal would be to push the increased bailout cost into the future by borrowing more money. Felix Rohatyn, the Manhattan investment banker and fiscal gadfly, proposed last week that the Government pay for the bailout with a 5% surcharge on federal income taxes, which could raise $25 billion to $35 billion a year. Borrowing the money instead...
...from a number of preachers in the black churches she often visits. Concludes state assembly speaker Willie Brown, who has known her for 30 years: "Dianne is as good a communicator as Ronald Reagan -- without the Chamber of Commerce jokes." To Feinstein, in fact, public performance is not a sideshow but something that cuts close to the heart of politics. "Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something that people want...