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...Moderate Party leader Carl Bildt, 42, who hopes to form a government soon. That will not be easy. By failing to deliver an absolute majority to Bildt's coalition, voters ensured that their country's vaunted politics of cooperation would be sorely tested. Bildt will need at least the tacit support of the new right-wing protest party, New Democracy, which won 25 seats by advocating curbs on immigration and cuts in foreign aid -- policies that are anathema to the rest of the nonsocialist bloc and to the socialists as well. Even then, he will face the daunting task...
...with the U.S. Administration when his own political future is so shaky. Shamir has staked his reputation on a concise formula: no land for peace. He has no sympathy for Bush's concern that an aid package to Israel at this time would be interpreted by Arabs as a tacit endorsement of Jerusalem's policy of building Jewish settlements in the occupied territories. Quite the contrary, Shamir fears that if he capitulates to Bush and freezes construction of the Jewish settlements, the move might signal that a question mark hangs over the future of the West Bank, Gaza and East...
Even more jarring to critics, the book exhorts doctors and nurses actively to abet the "self-deliverance" of the terminally ill. Author Derek Humphry contends that such assistance is common but tacit. "Part of good medicine is to help you out of this life as well as help you in," he argues. "When cure is no longer possible and the patient seeks relief through euthanasia, the help of physicians is most appropriate...
...Bolshevik Platform of neo-Stalinist gadfly Nina Andreyeva to the radical Communists for Democracy group led by Russian vice president Alexander Rutskoi. Sergeyev contends that his Communist Initiative movement alone counts at least 3.5 million sympathizers. Other alternatives are emerging on the fringes of the party. With the tacit approval of Gorbachev, former Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze set up a Democratic Reform Movement earlier this month to further perestroika. Last week Alexander Yakovlev, a key architect of Gorbachev's changes, quit the government, presumably to devote his energies to the fledgling movement. Meanwhile, 12 prominent hard-liners called...
What is going on here? For millions of retirees, a pension, along with the requisite gold watch, is a tacit reward for a lifetime of company loyalty, a bedrock foundation against poverty in old age. Suddenly, though, employees and retirees of some of America's largest corporations fear that the pensions they were counting on may not be there when they need them. If Executive Life's failure is not frightening enough for Americans, some 50 large companies, including LTV, Chrysler, Bethlehem Steel and Uniroyal Goodrich, have seriously underfunded their pension plans and jeopardized the security of their own retirees...