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...country with no tradition of pluralism and democracy, the creation of parties, of programs, of an electoral system is a daunting enough assignment -- even without post-revolutionary confusion and chaos. There have been suggestions that the balloting should be postponed beyond April. But Rumanians, who have shed much blood to win the right to choose a representative government, are not likely to allow anyone to keep them from doing...
...plus two others -- facing investigation by the Senate ethics committee. If the past session of Congress was a nightmare for the House of Representatives, with the resignations of Speaker Jim Wright and Majority Whip Tony Coelho and the launching of twelve other ethics investigations, this session promises to be even worse for the Senate...
...Even Henry Kissinger talks with reverence and, perhaps, envy when he views this swirling epoch. "This will be a truly historic presidency," Kissinger says. Just back from Hamburg, where he met with scholars and thinkers from both East and West Europe, Kissinger was fascinated with the difference. "The West Europeans were pragmatic," he relates; "the East Europeans were elemental, emotional, very moving in their idealism. We just can't mumble to them." What better tutor in this changing world than Thomas Jefferson, who long ago counseled, "We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty...
...Even so, pharmaceutical profit margins are on the rise, often by substantial amounts. Some stock analysts predict that earnings for major U.S. drug companies will climb as much as 15% annually over the period from last year to 1991. Although prescription drugs account for less than 10% of health-care costs in the U.S., pharmaceutical expenses are growing at twice the rate of other medical expenditures...
...later, under Ceausescu, competing with it for funds. Its estimated 180,000 troops regarded themselves as being part of an elite unit; they were never saddled with the manual chores -- constructing bridges and the like -- routinely assigned to soldiers, and they were equipped with the latest in weaponry even as the 180,000-member, mainly conscripted armed forces suffered budget cutbacks. Securitate members were indoctrinated to equate Ceausescu's well-being with their own and were rewarded with lavish perks. Even after the revolutionary government last week threatened to execute Securitate members found at large, many remained defiant...