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...first Gorbachev and the reactionaries tried to co-opt each other. One of Gorbachev's aides, fluent in the earthy idiom of American politics, paraphrases a favorite line of Lyndon Johnson's: "Mikhail Sergeyevich felt it was better to have the camels inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in. He wanted to keep them where he could see them and where they would have to take his orders. He also wanted to use them to put pressure on the Balts." That arrangement was fine with the reactionaries, since they had considerable latitude in how to interpret...
...circus folding its tent? Economics. Pan American World Airways, from which the White House charters the press plane, is under bankruptcy proceedings and is in the process of selling its assets. If Pan Am goes under, no other airline appears both willing and able to replace it as the official purveyor of 747s to the press corps. "No other airline wants to do it," says Gary Wright of the White House Travel Office. "The bottom line is the airlines don't make enough money out of it, and the p.r. value is negligible...
...from Washington to Abu Dhabi, Beaty often had to leave his room in the early morning to return calls from telephone booths. He persuaded several sources to meet him on neutral ground in Casablanca, and learned more details there while dining on fish and rice in a Bedouin's tent. Beaty came right up against the sinister underside of the story when a man from the black network invited himself into Beaty's hotel room in Abu Dhabi and threatened to kill...
...increased concern among women since the Supreme Court upheld the government's right to deny federal funding to family-planning clinics that mention the abortion option. Then came the disclosure of "pro- life" comments by court nominee Clarence Thomas. Last week Bush emphasized that the party is a "big tent" with room for varied views, even though its platform essentially considers abortion to be murder. "What we're saying," cracks a Bush adviser, "is that our party tent is big enough to include murderers...
...fill the seat of one of the greatest civil rights heroes, Bush found a black who actually believes in the Republican notion that minorities need the absence of discrimination, not affirmative action, in order to succeed. Thomas has pitched his political tent on a small plot of ground where black nationalism and Republican conservatism converge...