Word: reforms
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...afternoon speech at the ARCO forum yesterday, Reform Party presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan attempted to establish himself as a viable third-party candidate, but an overflowing audience made it clear that it would not forget his controversial past...
Although the majority of Buchanan's prepared speech focused on the need for both campaign finance reform and a third party in American politics, he was unable to escape audience attack regarding his views on homosexuality, immigration, the Holocaust and women's issues...
Buchanan said his move to the Reform Party came after he concluded that George W. Bush would win the Republican presidential nomination. In addition, he said he feared Democratic challenger Al Gore '69 would win in the November election and that conservatives "will go down for the third time...
Prominent Reform Party member, Marxist and national Buchanan co-chair Lenora Fulani made the trip to Harvard to watch Buchanan's speech yesterday...
Beijing's amplified rhetoric over Taiwan may, in fact, be as much a reflection of shifts in Beijing's domestic politics as of developments in Taipei's presidential race. After all, military confrontation with Taiwan and the U.S. would be disastrous for China's economic reforms and the goal of attracting investment, and Beijing's reformists had hoped that their efforts, and the fact that Hong Kong has kept its economic system despite being ruled from the mainland, would coax Taipei toward reunification. But the slowdown of China's reforming economy over the past two years has raised the threat...