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Although one could imagine a host of issues that might sway Downie, for both personal and professional reasons--such as which candidate will appoint a Supreme Court that is less restrictive of press freedoms, or who is more likely to raise taxes--the Managing Editor will not be lured so easily. With the bad rap special interest groups have received in recent years, one can understand his reticence...
Walsh and other LoPresti supporters have also called Travaglini a cynical opportunist who has changed his views on a number of major issues and has suddenly gone over to the liberal side to sway voters...
...maintains that such deportations are illegal under the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention, which forbids the transfer of residents from a territory occupied during wartime. Whitehead's rebuke, however, is unlikely to sway Israeli officials, who have already deported 33 alleged troublemakers in what they contend is a legal effort to quell the eight-month-old Palestinian uprising...
...Bush's support for inclusion does not please all Republicans. Some worry that he will compromise party principles in an attempt to sway moderate voters. But these conservatives concede, in 1988, if Bush were to sway the party back towards its Rockefeller image, they have nowhere else to turn...
Ortega's sudden switch to good-guy tactics did not sway the Resistance, which directs some 10,000 contras who are trying to overthrow the Marxist-led regime. Meeting in the Dominican Republic, the organization's 54-member Assembly, which considers itself Nicaragua's government-in-exile, elected a new seven-man directorate. Among its members: former Colonel Enrique Bermudez, 56, the contras' commander in chief since 1981. The inclusion of Bermudez, who served in the National Guard of the dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, represents a major victory for hard-liners within the Resistance who believe that the Sandinistas...