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...part, funded through mandatory private savings, would pay all Americans retirement benefits pegged to their actual contributions. But if the change is to take place, it would be better to have it before the immense claims of retiring baby boomers send the system into shock-and create a huge bloc of pensioners fiercely invested in the status quo. Also before a resentful younger generation, faced with the prospect of giant tax hikes, starts practicing reform with a sledgehammer...
Specter's tactical strategy is to allow the other hopefuls to split the conservative bloc while he holds on to the more moderate voters, including those who say they are pro-choice. It is a long shot, but one he can put into perspective: 20 months ago, doctors told him that a brain tumor would probably kill him in three to six weeks. "You want to do a little more," he says of his outlook after the operation, in which the tumor was removed and found to be benign. "Taking on a presidential run is a very big step...
Yavlinsky is head of the Yabloko Bloc, a democratic reform party. Political pollsters in Russia currently consider him the leading challenger to Boris Yeltsin in the next presidential election, scheduled...
SINCE THE FALL OF THE COMMUNIST BLOC in 1989 and the loss of Soviet subsidies in 1992, Cuba has suffered through a period of plummeting prosperity that is euphemistically known as the ``special period.'' Imports have dried up. Industry has folded in on itself. Cuba's No. 1 money earner, the sugar crop, amounted to less than 4 million tons this year--a level not seen for decades. The island's factories are producing at only 30% capacity, giving rise to shortages in everything from clothes and cosmetics to pots and pans...
...Jerusalem, Yossi Beilin, Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister, also insisted that the summit would have a positive impact. It showed, he said, that ``a bloc is being created for peace.'' But for most Israelis, the talkfest in Cairo changed nothing. The main issue is whether the Islamic terrorist campaigns will be halted...