Word: top
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Democrats are poised to elevate Tom Foley to the top House post, but there will be a scramble for other leadership positions. -- At this week's NATO summit, George Bush may counter Gorbachev's gambits by proposing a cut in U.S. , forces in Europe. -- Could the explosion that killed 47 sailors on the U.S.S. Iowa have been triggered by a plot to collect insurance...
...first glance, the black-and-white poster at Peking University hardly looked like a call for revolutionary change. Yet under the heading A DIRECTORY OF FAMOUS CHINESE, the broadside traced with devastating clarity the network of family ties that links China's top leaders and perpetuates their power. That farflung network, along with the rampant corruption that Chinese citizens are forced to endure each day, has gone far to galvanize the outcry for democracy in China's streets...
When three top party officials visited a hospitalized hunger striker, the angry student declared, "If you really wish to re-establish the Communist Party's prestige, you must first excise the official profiteers." Many Chinese courts have been trying to do just that. The judicial system handled 37,000 cases of profiteering last year, up 50% from 1987. More than 100 embezzlers and bribe takers were sentenced to death or life imprisonment...
Opportunity is coming his way again. As Jim Wright staggers and falls, Foley is being heaped with bipartisan endorsements as the next Speaker of the House and second in line for the presidency. Explains Wyoming Republican Senator Alan Simpson: "Cream rises to the top...
...Foley's top aide is his wife of almost 21 years, Heather. She joined her husband's staff in 1971, two years after earning her law degree, and serves now as his unpaid administrative assistant. Washington consultant Ted Van Dyk, an old friend, says that Foley needs someone like Heather to run interference for him. "He suffers fools," says Van Dyk. "Not gladly, but he suffers them...