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...Accession Woes I enjoyed reading "When Reform Doesn't Pay the Bills" [Oct. 23], on the struggling economies of the countries that have recently been admitted to the European Union. Although I cannot comment meaningfully on the entire region, your article failed to identify two of the main causes of problems in Hungary. First is an absence of leadership among the political élite: opposition parties are criticizing the current government but have not offered a credible alternative. Second, Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany has not been open about his family's wealth, yet he chooses to raise taxes...
...country, many of its citizens are apathetic about politics. By simply showing up and speaking out at public meetings, the Free Staters are filling the participatory void. They helped block a statewide ban on smoking in bars and restaurants and joined forces with elements of the two main parties to pressure the statehouse to vote down a pilot program for a national ID card...
...operation). But Gates was not only an intelligence professional; he seemed to be a man with a fine political sense. He probably knew there was nothing he could do to stop a White House bent on folly, short of holding a press conference in front of the CIA's main gate. And he apparently never thought it was his position to blow the whistle...
...small window into Iran-contra and my impression was that Gates was never one of the main players, if one at all. Although I wasn't surprised that the scandal forced him to withdraw his nomination to replace Casey in 1987, I also wasn't surprised that Congress and the special prosecutor essentially gave him a pass. Or that in 1991 he eventually was confirmed as CIA director. Gates didn't mind being the little gray man, keeping his name off policies that could blow up in his face...
...European commander contended that, rather than the Pentagon or the White House, the main driver of a change in military strategy will be the Democratic Congress, which will have control of the purse strings. "At the end of the day, all strategy is based on the money available," he said. "And if the Congress slows the spending on Iraq, that would force us to change things on the ground...