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...referendums have a long tradition. Such calls to let the people make decisions directly ^ illustrate the troubles that democratic forces have had in moving Russia toward the kind of multiparty system that is at the heart of Western-style representative democracy. The collapse of the Communist Party created a vacuum that none of the multitudinous new movements and parties has been able to fill. Many of the fledgling parties are identified with the personalities that lead them rather than any real programs to meet the needs of Russia's emerging society. Since no elections are scheduled for the near future...
Lindsey is also the official worrier, often pacing in the back of the room, not easily contented. Last week it was he who fretted to associates that the vacuum created by the Governor's lack of activity in the early days of the transition had created a number of not fully favorable stories. "Bruce isn't satisfied if the Governor just hits the ball out of the park," George Stephanopoulos, the campaign's communications director, is fond of saying. "That ball has to go out of the park, over the river and through an apartment window...
Under the communists, east Germans lived a highly regimented existence. Into the postunification vacuum has stepped the far right, which offers its own ideas of order. To many, the restoration of order means in part a Germany without foreigners, and that appeals to a significant minority. Enrico, a 15- year-old Berliner, describes himself as right-wing and disgusted with Bonn's "miserable policies." He says he finds the Third Reich an attractive model: "O.K., everything wasn't exactly right then, but there was order in Germany. Then there were just Germans in Germany. I don't like...
...interdependence," he judges, "there is a chance of things getting worse." Or as Washington analyst Frank Gaffney puts it, "The fundamental laws of international politics have not been altered by the end of the cold war. You could say they've been exacerbated, because power, like nature, abhors a vacuum." Bush celebrated the death of communism by proclaiming a new world order. He was right about the new world, but so far there is precious little order...
...again. Others, like New York's Stephen Solarz, found the ground shifting beneath their feet as redistricting removed their old constituencies. One way or another, an empty space opened up, and that great sucking sound, as Ross Perot might have put it, was women rushing in to fill the vacuum...