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...Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford or Richard Nixon received at this stage of their terms. Bush may also find that his popularity has coattails: when asked with which party they identify, just as many people called themselves Republicans (32%) as Democrats. In Yankelovich surveys earlier this year, Democrats averaged a six- point edge. By 39% to 29%, the G.O.P. is seen as better able than the Democrats to handle national problems...
...anyone meant more to his team in the playoffs than "Hot Dog" Henderson to the A's, it was Will ("the Thrill") Clark of the Giants. The 25-year-old first baseman had a grand-slam homer and six runs batted in in the first game, and a bases-loaded single that drove home the winning run in the finale. For the five-game series, he reached base 15 times out of 22, batted .650, scored eight runs and drove in eight, with two homers. "It's no coincidence that at the most important time of the year, Will...
...apart on such basic issues as the pace of change and who will speak for the black majority. The clergymen handed De Klerk a 13-point agenda for reform demanding that the government lift the state of emergency and free the hundreds of remaining political prisoners, and then within six months abolish apartheid laws and begin negotiations on a new South African constitution with the A.N.C. "If we were to get that kind of commitment," Tutu said, "we would be ready to say to our friends, 'Put your sanctions programs on hold...
...mostly Christian Armenia, nationalists are also gaining new prominence. Communist Party leader Suren Arutunyan, who jailed many extremists last December following demonstrations in the capital of Yerevan, has ordered most of them released. Says Khachik Stamboltsyan, a member of the Armenian supreme soviet who spent six months in confinement: "Relations are still tense between us, but we talk a lot." Expressions of hatred toward Azerbaijan are the rule. "They had an earthquake in Baku recently," recounts an Armenian girl. "Too bad it didn't hit 20 on the Richter scale and wipe them...
...very day the Florida session ended. After voting for eight straight years to ban Medicaid funding for abortions except when the mother's life is in danger, the House voted 216 to 206 to allow payments for poor women who become pregnant through rape or incest. Twenty-six House members who opposed such funding in 1988 changed sides...