Word: priming
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Recent Commencement speakers include Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir "Pinkie" Bhutto '73. Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez and Spanish King Juan Carlos...
Political instability at home has undermined the yen as well. Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu, 59, who is outside the Old Guard of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, lacks the political support to serve as a bold leader. "That poor gentleman," says one Japanese bureaucrat. "They are all trying to sink him. He gets no help." While Kaifu is moderately popular, he ! is not seen as someone who can dramatically improve relations with the U.S. or boost Japan's influence in the world. Says a disappointed financier: "Japan has not emerged as the superpower that it was expected...
Even as the situation deteriorated, officials in both Lithuania and the West were convinced Gorbachev would not dare intervene militarily. "Things are calm here," said Kazimira Prunskiene, the tough economist whom Landsbergis had named as his Prime Minister. "An invasion would provoke a tremendous crisis. It would be the end of perestroika, and I don't think Gorbachev is prepared for that...
Pressured by Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa, who succeeded Jayewardene in 1989, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi agreed last year to withdraw Indian troops. The departure was hastened by Gandhi's ouster in elections last November. His successor, V.P. Singh, takes a less muscular approach to foreign policy. Said a senior aide to Singh: "We are glad to get out. We were not wanted there...
...1980s corporate greed, he can then preach Democratic values in the morning. Clinton is the perfect front man for an organization that celebrates the work ethic of the common man while relying almost entirely on the Fortune 500 for operating funds. Although Clinton has recovered from his stupefyingly long prime-time address at the 1988 convention, he is still a techno-Democrat, one of a dozen or so who in the absence of political poetry rattle off strategies for a postindustrial, sacrifice-free America...