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...powerful triumvirate beneath him could pose a strong challenge. The standard bearer of the liberal-reform faction, Zhu Rongji, 66, Deng's | economic czar, has watched his star soar as last year's GDP grew nearly 12%, to $509 billion. But despite admission by Marxist stalwarts that economic liberalization has saved China from the fate of the defunct Soviet bloc, the economy has become dangerously overheated. Zhu's tough measures to curb growth clearly stem from his sense of how directly his own power is tied to the nation's balance sheet. But in the process he has alienated military...
Indeed, say staff members, the First Lady can understand these times. Far from being the standard-bearer of liberalism in the White House, says an aide, "she's a lot more conservative than she's made out to be in the media." To stress the point, the First Lady reminded an audience last week that she was brought up in a staunch Republican family and was a "Goldwater girl...
...election, 57 percent to 33 percent. (His approval rating also dropped: 49-40 disapproval, a flip from 48-40 percent approval Oct. 26.) Democrats would still re-nominate the president in '96, 57-32 percent, but voters overall said they'd rather nominate a different Democratic standard-bearer, 48-41 percent.Post your opinion on theElection '94bulletin board...
...programs of the President and the Governor. U.S. Rep. Jack Brooks (D-Tex.), chair of the House Judiciary Committee and a Clinton ally in the drafting of the Crime Bill, lost his seat too. Brooks was criticized earlier in the year on national television by Republican standard bearer Gingrich for adding "pork" to the bill...
...Mort's criticism is that [Breyer] is notpolitically correct," Dershowitz said. "Mort isthe standard bearer for political correctness andthe Harvard Law School and I think his views haveto be taken with a grain of salt...