Word: vows
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...fire, but he has done his job. He has been loyal, and he has appeal to the conservative base." Bennett, Weber and other top Bush advisers agree that removing Quayle would hurt the President more than it would help, by compounding the damage from his abandoned "no new taxes" vow. Says Bennett: "It would look like another broken promise: wobbly, panicky and inconsistent...
...ready to make other major concessions to win a trade agreement if France would make deep and rapid cuts in farm subsidies. Would Paris reciprocate? "No," Dumas replied. But what, Baker asked, if France got all the concessions it wanted? Dumas repeated, coldly, "No." The G-7 did vow to try for a trade agreement by year's end -- but that was the same pledge the leaders made...
...Making A Vow...
...WORLD LIKE TWO NAUGHTY schoolboys, the opposing leaders in Thailand's civil carnage knelt humbly before King Bhumibol Adulyadej to receive a stern lecture. The essence: cut it out. In effect the King ordered Suchinda Kraprayoon, the general who had accepted the post of Prime Minister despite his vow not to do so, and Chamlong Srimuang, the ascetic former governor of Bangkok and leader of the move to depose Suchinda, to work out some compromise. Said the monarch: "I would like both of you to talk face-to- face, not to confront each other, because this is our country...
Providing moral focus for the demonstrations was Chamlong Srimuang, a retired general and former governor of Bangkok who heads the opposition Palang Dharma party. A Buddhist, Chamlong announced that he would fast unto death to force Suchinda to resign. That vow sparked the antigovernment rallies. Suchinda fought back by accusing critics of promoting social unrest and declaring that he would resign only if his coalition suffered a parliamentary defeat. Suchinda's defiance was undermined, however, when his five-party coalition, clearly shaken by events, agreed to four constitutional amendments, including one that would require the Prime Minister...