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...might expect such a leader to step forward in this time of crisis. Sadly, no one has. While Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) continues to assert himself on the right, no strong leader on the left has cracked the whip on the White House and Congress...
...naysayers. Said Linda DiVall, a Republican pollster: "The members in opposition are in sync with what their constituents think." First to exploit this sentiment on the right was Newt Gingrich of Georgia, long a spokesman for Republicans still enthralled with Reaganomics. He temporarily relinquished his post as House Republican whip to lead a crusade against the tax increases at the heart of the measure. "This budget package with its higher taxes will deepen the recession and increase the number of unemployed," he said. Gingrich urged a freeze on discretionary social spending, which would ease pressure on Medicare, and revived...
...adviser. "We got no support." Reeling from the defections, the Administration lashed out at the Democrats. In a campaign speech for G.O.P. candidates in Ohio, Bush hyperbolically insisted that if the dreaded sequester were to occur, "the Democratic Congress knows that it will be held accountable." Retorted House Democratic whip Bill Gray: "We ask him to stop acting like a party chairman and to start acting like a President...
...A.N.C.'s social-welfare department, a move that produced protests inside the organization. That same month Jerry Richardson, "coach" of the Mandela football club, was sentenced to death for Seipei's murder. During his trial, the three surviving youths testified that Winnie beat them with her fists and a whip. She was trying to force them to claim that the white Methodist minister with whom they had taken refuge had sexually abused them, they said. Winnie denies the charges. "At least I will be able to stand a proper trial," she said, "and clear my name properly...
...returns to Washington. As the talks began, Democrats suggested instituting a vaguely defined tax on energy and eliminating the income tax provision that reduces the marginal tax rate for the wealthiest Americans from 33% to 28%. Both ideas are anathema to Republicans, some of whom, like House minority whip Newt Gingrich, are calling for tax cuts to blunt the edge of a recession. G.O.P. leaders responded with a call for a cut in capital gains taxes, which Democrats adamantly oppose, along with higher levies on tobacco and alcoholic beverages and a $10,000 limit on individual deductions for state...