There wi? he no candidate representing Arsenion's black communay.
Chefor is not much more inspirPapar trom nis chronic s ability to get his own name nant in tront of a camera, le that US voters just won't buy A year ago, 90% of voters backed him in the grotesque self-congratulation that foilosed the carnage in the Gulf. Now he is struggling to get 40%. Which all goes to show. as Maggie found te her cust. thet ine pocuaity as a circuiar sing squad. Whatever it is, it certainty isn: about poicies. With the exorption of radi cal populist Jerry Brown. you could miss the polcy differences 1 you blinked.
Brown, who has the dubious dis tinction of having been Governor of Calloma - ike Ronald Heagan -did come up with some radical after. natices. He is particularly strong on green issues, demancing an immedate end to the US nuclear power rogramme is for left alternatives - a rare sight in the USA - a fow heads are beginning to appear above the creasing number of union officials - including Tony Mazzochi, presicent or ue cl and atomic workets union (OCAW) - are now backing "Labour Party Advocates'(LPA).
But opposition to the current system is growing. NOW, the millionstrong National Organisation for Women, has also been debating the need for an alternative party. DENG XIAOPING, the aged but In a move that shows a remarkable inck of attention to the st decade of Soviet histort. Then has declared that under-de countries can or meking proper finish diversion from the nailonalised com mand aconome suen as Premier L Peng are to take a back sea:, if they Know whats good for sona But is this to be accumpanied by a dose oi glasnost, Chinese styie? You must be kidding Increasing And Deng is no stranger to imposing iron control. It was not oniy Tiananmen Square that saw Deng in action; in the 1950s he ordered the execution of hundreds of thousands.
The West will go along with it for the moment - after all, the sentences for ideological offences' have been reduced a bit, and there are profits to be made.
But the thousand million citizens won't. As economic anarchy or stagnation follow the increase in marke intervention, dissent will raise its head again. Deng, Li Peng and the other stalinist rulers of the People's Republic' are sitting on a time-bomb.