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...Corruption was always a part of life. What has changed, though, may be the willingness of Italians to do something about it. Voters will go to the polls this Sunday to register their outrage in a referendum on their discredited political system. A si vote -- widely expected -- will not undo decades of corruption or transform the political landscape overnight, but supporters of reform argue that the referendum is the best way to begin the difficult passage toward a more responsive -- and responsible -- political order. "If the yes vote wins, it will not mean a magic wand is waved against...
PRESIDENT CLINTON MAY HAVE WEASELED ON SOME of his campaign promises, but not his pledge to liberalize Washington's attitude toward abortion. Last week the White House unveiled two more proposals. One would undo the Hyde amendment, the 16-year-old ban on federal financing of abortions for poor women through Medicaid; the other would permit federal aid to international population- control groups that provide or pay for abortions...
...crisis threatened to undo everything Nancy, Teresa and Katherine had done to keep their families together. Their landlord had decided to sell the cluster of row houses they lived in, and any new owner was likely to evict them so that the properties could be renovated and rented at a higher rate. City law requires that tenants be granted a first shot at buying their apartments. But to Katherine the sum required -- $190,000 -- was daunting. "For people like us, there was no way we could come up with that...
Most important, lawmakers in both parties warned that raising the top rates on individuals and businesses threatens to undo one of the singular accomplishments of the '80s: the 1986 tax-reform act. Apart from simplicity and fairness, the theory behind keeping rates low and loopholes closed was to encourage people and corporations to focus on business opportunities rather than on how to avoid taxes. Economists warned that many investors will scramble for tax shelters and tax-free bonds or move their money abroad. Corporations will head back into debt to reduce their taxable profits. Offering tax credits to small businesses...
...front has no coherent program -- except to undo what Yeltsin has done -- only skill at demagoguery. Nationalists like Nikolai Lysenko shift the blame to old enemies: "The U.S. planned and engineered the collapse of the Soviet Union." Front leaders call on the citizenry to "rise in defense of the Russian state" and force the President out. "Their strategy," says a U.S. official, "is to invoke slogans in an attempt to excite the baser political instincts." But in championing causes like the troubles of Russian nationals in the other republics, front leaders have potent emotional issues with which to stir...