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Bush still resents being portrayed during the presidential campaign as manipulated by handlers, and he is out to prove that he can move boldly and effectively in foreign affairs. In China he found an area where he thought he could rely on his expertise to act. Explains White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater: "The President knew he would be criticized for this, but he feels strongly that it's in our national interest to improve relations with China. He feels he knows China as well as anybody -- and better than his critics in Congress." The next few weeks will tell whether...
...chose Tom," Stone says, % "because he was the closest to Ron Kovic in spirit. I sensed that they came from the same working-class Catholic background and had a similarly troubled family history. They certainly had the same drive, the same hunger to achieve, to be the best, to prove something. Like Ron too, Tom is wound real tight. And what's wrong with that...
...Dedeneva, a textile worker from Omsk, complained at last week's session, "People have ceased to believe in perestroika because the difficulties have only increased, while the period for overcoming them has become too long." Now the Kremlin has asked the people for another five years, and that could prove to be more time than Gorbachev can afford...
...strike committees that became for a while the headquarters of local political power. Yeltsin himself has called those committees "the embryos of real people's power." If a new wave of strikes rolled across the Soviet Union, the nationwide momentum from below for political change might prove unstoppable...
...guys are driven by the desire to prove they're better," Piltch said. "They're not driven by revenge. They're experienced enough to not be concerned by outside pressure...