Progress in Mexico marks slow shift from single party rule
Opposition gains in Baja California hint at broader opening of Mexico's political system. PAN won the Baja governorship in 1989 and appears to build momentum with leads in major cities and Veracruz and Oaxaca races. PRI engages aggressive campaigns, but Sunday's results signal gradual democratic progress toward multiparty competition.
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Mexico
Baja California
National Party
Institutional Revolutionary Party
PRI
National Action Party
PAN
Baja
Berlin Wall
Mexicali
Francisco Perez Tejada
Hector Teran Teran
Tijuana
Ensenada
Veracruz
Oaxaca
Tax reform gains steam with calls to simplify system
Washington discusses scrapping the income tax and IRS to replace the 3000 page code with a simpler system. Proposals include a flat tax, a national sales tax, or a broad reduction with better equity. Bipartisan momentum grows ahead of 1996 campaigns as lawmakers seek to boost savings, investment, and growth.
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Internal Revenue Service
Army of Tax Accountants
House
Richard Armey
Bill Archer
Jack Kemp
National Commission On Economic Growth
Congress
EH Armey
Archer
Richard Lugar
Lugar
W House
Richard Gephardt
America
Chicago Tribune
Packwood ethics case highlights public hearings clash
Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Claude Lewis critiques Senate rules shielding officials from scrutiny after a 52 to 48 vote defeats public hearings on Senator Packwood's sexual misconduct allegations. He cites 19 accusers, diary tampering claims, and past scandals to argue Congress hides misconduct while the public bears the cost of a broken accountability system.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Bob Packwood
R-Ore
Packwood
U.S. Senate
Barbara Boxer
D.-Calif
Dan Rostenkowski
East Texas
CPA
Charles Wilson
Dtexas
Newt Gingrich
R-Ga
Gingrich
America
Ethics Committee
Mitch McConnell
R-Ky
Ethics
McConnell
Claude Lewis
The
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Simpson trial as writers’ grand diversion
Jeff Greenfield argues that the Simpson trial primarily serves writers as a distraction from actual work, a window on American society that fuels sensationalism and blocks productive writing, while giving great appeal to media and entertainment professionals.
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Jeff Greenfield
Why the Bomb Remembered While Other Slaughters Are Not
Joanne Jacobs argues that Hiroshima and Nagasaki cast a lasting taboo on nuclear weapons while firebombings such as Dresden and Tokyo are less remembered. She notes wars’ brutal logic, the moral double standards of violence, and Bosnia's lessons, urging vigilance despite discomfort.
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Japan
Dresden
Tokyo
United States
Nanjing
Nagasaki
Saddam Hussein
Bosnia
Joanne Jacobs
San Jose
Calif
Mercury News
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