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Weeks of denials from the White House have not done much to sway other Western leaders from a nagging impression that PRESIDENT BUSH is ill. Several have noted in telephone conversations with Bush that he vacillates and loses his train of thought in mid-sentence. Diplomats have observed that the President has become more stooped, his face often drawn and his complexion grayish. At last month's G-7 summit in Munich and the CSCE summit in Helsinki, the same symptoms were starkly evident. Says a French diplomat: "The questions they keep asking privately are, Do you think George...
...course the vast majority of people who would come in contact with a revisionist advertisement in The Crimson would probably be disgusted by it. But this would not matter to Smith. Holocaust revisionists are not aspiring to sway majorities right now. Instead, Holocaust revisionists are thinking in the long term, primarily concerned with reaching individuals intrigued by Holocaust revisionism, people who will from the intellectual and financial support for the movement in the future...
...results may have primarily reflected the sway of personality politics, a phenomenon familiar to Americans but less known to Britons. Right up to the photo finish, the gentlemanly, mild-mannered Major bested Labour leader Neil Kinnock in popularity polls by 10 points. Although Kinnock delivered a slick performance that outshone Major's on the campaign trail, he could not shake the widely held perception that he is a rather ruthless opportunist who -- Bill Clinton, take note -- is not entirely to be trusted. Polls indicated that if Labour's shadow chancellor, the brainy, witty John Smith, had been party leader, Labour...
Proponents of the sale hope that labor-union pressure will sway recession- conscious politicians. Yet some members of Congress have been so adamant in their objections that neither the Administration nor the Saudi government has had an appetite for the battle so far. Democratic Congressman Mel Levine of California has collected more than 200 signatures of members who oppose the sale on the ground that it contradicts the Administration's own antiproliferation policy. "A lot of people believe a big weapons sale at this juncture is unwise," says Toby Dershowitz, spokeswoman for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the leading...
...Leppard's new album, Adrenalize, is a knockout punch in a velvet glove. Combining hard and soft guitar, this album will sway even the most adamant opponent of hard rock...