Word: wings
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...threaten a 1996challenge to President Clinton. Casey, who just finished two terms as governor, established an exploratory committee to raise funds for a campaign. He is expected to decide whether to run by May. Casey, who opposes abortion rights, has complained that the Clinton Administration is filled with "left-wing ideologues." He had a heart and liver transplant in 1993. If he does run, he'll be running uphill.TIME Washington correspondent Michael Duffysays Clinton's approval rating among Democrats has dramatically improved this year, especially in early primary states, where Casey would have to start strong in order to mount...
Throughout the Cold War, U.S. foreign policy planners, the military and the intelligence community consistently thwarted popular social reform movements in the Third World and backed brutal right-wing dictators. Countries that followed the U.S. model for development ended up with stupendous degrees of economic inequality--usually in he form of a tiny, super-rich elite and a mass of destitute people...
...federal lands, and for the Bureau of Land Management to return land holdings to the states. "The Federal Government has a stranglehold on the rural West," says Met Johnson, a G.O.P. state legislator in Utah and a co-founder of the coalition, "We are not the reactionary right wing. We know that we can manage these lands better than they can from inside the Beltway...
President Clinton made a St. Patrick's Day appeal to Catholics and Protestants in British-controlled Northern Ireland, asking them to get rid of their weapons. Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, visiting the White House along with Irish Prime Minister John Bruton tonight, insisted that the political wing of the Catholic Irish Republican Army lacks the authority to act on Clinton's request. Bruton disagreed. He told reporters that Adams "has tremendous influence" over the anti-British IRA. Bruton and Adams praised Clinton for opening the White House gates for Sinn Fein, a controversial move they hope will accelerate peace...
...Patriotism," said Diefenbach in an interview yesterday, " is a common property of us all; it is not the exclusive property of the right wing...