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...party forced Videnov to resign the prime ministership last November, and to replace him the Socialists have designated the unpopular Nikolai Dobrev, the hard-line Interior Minister. But the new, anticommunist President of Bulgaria, Petar Stoyanov, who was sworn in this week to the mostly ceremonial post, is insisting the Socialists get together with the opposition Union of Democratic Forces on a reform program and a date for early parliamentary elections. The Socialists had been holding out for the official close of their term at the end of 1998, but last week they grudgingly proposed going to the polls...
...economic crisis, Bulgarians want change at the top, and they want it now. After daily protests by students and workers reached 100,000 people on Sunday in Sofia alone, the government agreed to meet with opposition leaders. The two sides will discuss holding early elections to replace an unpopular Parliament well before the scheduled 1998 elections. The demonstrations started last week when the Socialist Party insisted it would name a new premier without going to the polls. Socialist Premier Zhan Videnov resigned in late December, amid mounting criticism for his failure to resurrect Bulgaria's economy. Last year's inflation...
...understand our love for each other. But nowhere in the Constitution of the United States does the word comfortable appear as a criterion for the full enjoyment of the rights accorded to every American citizen. In fact, this nation's founders went to great pains to protect an unpopular minority from the tyranny of a majority...
Having promised to serve no more than two terms in the Senate, Thompson has shown little regard for its clubby folkways. He quickly signed on to his friend John McCain's campaign-finance-reform bill and began battling for such internally unpopular measures as term limits. Two years in a row, he has killed otherwise automatic congressional pay raises by demanding they be voted on separately...
Public disgust over privatization nearly destroyed Chubais. After disastrous reverses in the December 1995 parliamentary elections, Yeltsin fired his deeply unpopular Minister, but Chubais got back into the thick of things much faster than expected. Presidential elections were scheduled for the summer of 1996, and Yeltsin's popularity was at rock bottom. Korzhakov and other intimates urged him to postpone the elections and declare a state of emergency. Yeltsin was tempted, but in mid-March consulted several political figures, including Chubais. His passionate arguments against that course swayed Yeltsin and led the President to put Chubais in charge...