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Analyzes issues that will be discussed by United States President George Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev at their summit meeting aboard US and Soviet warships in the Mediterranean in December 1989. Focus on how the US can help Soviet perestroika succeed; Issues on American economic assistance; Issues related to Soviet involvement in Eastern European affairs.

The article reports on the candidates of the 1988 elections. George Bush and Michael Dukakis started their presidential campaign on Labor day as it kicked off. In a "Business Week" poll, results showed that Bush is leading with 50 percent compared to the 44 percent of Dukakis. Bush promises a kinder and gentler national while Dukakis is working on giving economic nationalism a new prominence. INSET: MEET THE MASTERS OF MUD IN A DOWN-AND-DIRTY CAMPAIGN.

The article highlights the lifted hope of U.S. Democrats in the 1988 Presidential campaign brought about by the sagging economy and several unforeseen obstacles for Republicans candidates U.S. Vice-President George Bush and Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole. It also looks into the Democrats' discovery of a campaign strategy called old-fashioned populism. Meanwhile, the inability of Bush to shake off about the Iran-contra affair has sent his credibility plummeting.

Discusses how thanks to a feisty tone lacking in President George Bush's recent stump ramblings, the Republican National Convention figures to cut Bill Clinton's 20-point lead. Bush facing an uphill fight; Bush campaign's plan for erasing Bill Clinton's big lead; Predictions.

Reports that due to battling indecision and a Soviet crisis that underscores U.S. President George Bush's command of foreign policy, most Democrats are shunning the political campaign trail for the comforts of home. Senator who took the political campaign in New Hampshire; Campaign style of former Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas; Discussion on the U.S. foreign policy. INSET: Wannabe and might wannabes..

Discusses the December 2-3, 1989 Malta Summit between U.S. President George Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and Bush's postsummit briefing of European allies in Brussels. Outlines of Bush's vision of a new post-cold-war policy intended to reunite the Continent; Role of U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker III in plans; Proposals of Bush to help the Soviet economy.

This article discusses U.S. politics under Republican President George Bush. Congressional Democrats have been humbled by Bush's dominance of the policy agenda, including bailouts of savings and loan association failures, education, child care, clean air, capital gains, and drug traffic policy. INSET: Where the big issues stand..

This article focuses on the introduction of potentially costly bills for business enterprises in the U.S. during the administration of U.S. President George Bush. Rarely has business faced such a heavy barrage of costly bills. Demand for social legislation, suppressed for eight years by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, are emerging. With no money available, the U.S. Congress wants simply to order employers to pay for such needs as health care and parental leave. Lobbyists worry that an eventual budget compromise will mean new taxes on business. Underlying the unease of business enterprises is the realization that Bush will be far more willing than Reagan to deal with congressional Democrats. That leaves Democrats free to launch a series of initiatives that could throw the White House onto the defensive. In private, lobbyists concede they cannot block legislation requiring employers to give workers unpaid leave to care for newborns or sick relatives. Two items of particular concern to corporations are new limits on the campaign contributions of political action committees and tighter restrictions on former government employees going to work as lobbyist. After eight years of diehard Reaganism, companies must adjust to the new spirit of compromise. INSET: Congress 101: a syllabus..

This article focuses on the implications of the move of United States President-elect George Bush to name Elizabeth Hanford Dole as secretary of the Department of Labor. Until a few years ago, most of the nation's work-related problems got resolved, for better or worse, by Darwinian struggles between labor and management. But the extraordinary decline of union power in the early 1980s left an enormous vacuum where organized labor once functioned as the pattern-setter for the entire economy on wages, benefits, and working conditions. How to fill that void is emerging as a critical question. Several tough employment issues, such as child care and the minimum wage, are likely to force early clashes between Bush, Dole and Congress controlled by Democrats. But these skirmishes will only be forerunners to battles over deeper labor problems that have arisen because of organized labor's fading strength and demographic changes in the work force. With unions representing less than 13% of the private-industry work force, down from more than 20% in the 1970s, more and more nonunion employees are looking to the courts for protection against arbitrary management decisions. Dole got a reputation as a poor administrator at Transportation. She cannot escape suspicion that Bush named her largely to appease her husband, Republican Senate leader Bob Dole, whose help Bush needs in the Congress.

The article reports on the reasons why Democrat Michael Dukakis lost the 1988 presidential elections in the United States to Republican George Bush. Most rank-and-file Democrats sit out primaries and caucuses because their party ties are very loose making the liberal activists and interest groups in control. The nomination process either discourage strong candidates or weeds them out.

The article reports that while U.S. Vice-President George Bush is likely to win the 1988 Presidential elections, political analysts believe that he will not be able to repeat Ronald Reagan's 1980 feat of returning control of the Senate to the Republican Party. The Democrats have controlled the Senate for the past two years. Nationwide, Republicans are fighting against Democratic candidates who are well-known and well-funded.

The article reports on the potential of Vice President George Bush to advance on the Republican nomination for president in the U.S. After Super Tuesday, jubilant aides greeted the news of the Vice President's historic 16-state sweep by showing off business cards affixed with pictures of the White House. However, Bush's stumble in Iowa made him vulnerable to an assault by Kansas Senator Bob Dole.

Discusses how at long last, United States President George Bush is making the right moves in the 1992 presidential election campaign, but to no apparent effect. Bush still lags far behind Bill Clinton in the polls, especially among key voter blocs. What has the Bush campaign worried; Why no one cares.

Reports that is increasingly clear that the presidential race will be decided in the Midwest, where an eroding manufacturing base and stagnating wages give Governor Bill Clinton an edge over President George Bush. People's negativity on the economy in the region; Middle class under siege; Promises made already by the candidates.

Focuses on the topics covered by U.S. President George Bush in his recent State of the Union message, including a plan to revamp banking regulations and shore up the depleted insurance fund that guarantees deposits. Strategy of Bush to gain popularity; Revelation of a string of new anti-recession proposals by Democrats for the reinforcement of President's message; Proposal of a new program to rebuild the nation's roads, bridges and mass-transit systems. INSET: Bush's domestic agenda..

Presents information on the summit of U.S. President George Bush and Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev, held on September 9, 1990 in Helsinki, Finland. Information that the two leaders wrapped up their hastily arranged summit with proclamations of a "new world order"; Joint call for Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait; View that the "new partnership" between Washington and Moscow may take years to evolve into the stable political and economic entente that the two leaders envision; Problems faced by both leaders back home; View that even though Gorbachev's pressing need for hard currency and Western commercial links is bound to gradually expand U.S.-Soviet trade and investment, the leaders are still a long way from the full flowering of the U.S.-Soviet alliance that Helsinki promises; Concern of allies in Europe, that the U.S., with more than 100,000 troops in the gulf region, is too eager for combat. INSET: A new order of trouble..

The article reports on the call of president George Bush for the world's nations to help defray the cost for Operation Desert Shield and to provide financial and economic assistance to Gulf countries which suffered due to the U.S.-led embargo of Iraq. Bush made the appeal due to the increasing budget deficit and slowing economy of U.S.

The article profiles House Majority Leader Richard A. Gephardt, who is the election-year point man in the attack on George Bush. Gephardt is best known as a harsh critic of Japanese trade practices. But in a March 6 address, he called for a new international alliance, including Japan, that would funnel massive resources to the Soviet Union and its former satellites. He also proposed a major aid plan for the fledgling democracies of Eastern Europe, funded by cuts in defense spending.

Focuses on the issue surrounding the decision of deposed Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega to surrender before the U.S. authorities. Reaction of U.S. President George Bush to the decision of Noriega; Doubts surrounding the trial of Noriega; Fear of the exposure of embarrassing details about Noriega's activities as a paid U.S. Central Intelligence Agency; Reports on Noriega's role in cocaine running; Charges against Noriega.

Explains that U.S. Senate Finance Committee chairman Lloyd Bentsen has become an effective Democratic tormentor of President George Bush with regards to policy. Capital gains; Social legislation; Tax deduction for individual retirement accounts.

Reports that scandals during the Ronald Reagan Administration have erupted into political controversies in the George Bush Administration in the U.S. Graft and influence peddling in Reagan's Housing and Urban Development Department; Cleanup of nuclear weapons facilities; Savings and loan association failures.

This article focuses on the 101st Congress in the U.S. on January 3, 1989 opened by House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Tex.). Wright opened the Congress by declaring that 1989 is going to be a very busy and productive year. As events unfolded, it looked as if the Democrats had reason to crow. The Senate crushed the nomination of John G. Tower as Defense Secretary. A conciliatory President George Bush bowed to Democratic demands that he give up on military aid for the Nicaraguan contras. And Democrats moved swiftly to put the White House on the defensive over an increase in the minimum wage. But suddenly, Democrats' hopes of seizing the policy agenda have been dashed. Instead of pushing ambitious social legislation, Wright's colleagues will be sitting in judgment on the Speaker's ethics and perhaps driving him from office. According to Representative Ed Jenkins (D-Ga.), the Speaker is losing the war of perceptions. Although Wright will not leave without a protracted struggle, his days as Speaker may be numbered. In his opening-day speech, Wright observed that the House has been the most malleable instrument of the public will. There is nothing more malleable than a congressman with his finger aloft to the political winds.

This article discusses how the United States Senate debate over John G. Tower's nomination for Defense Secretary has dashed the Bush Administration's hopes of forging a bipartisan consensus with congressional Democrats. To hear President George Bush tell it, he's still holding his hand out to the opposition. He has avoided the personal attacks on anti-Tower leaders, such as Senator Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), that could poison his relations with Congress. But events largely beyond the President's control may frustrate his efforts at conciliation. In the Senate, the bickering over Tower has strained relations between the two parties. And the partisan wrangling threatens to spill over in the House. With Democrats in firm control of both houses, a bipartisan approach is Bush's only hope of advancing his agenda. And the opposition is prepared to test Bush every step of the way. Democrats are drafting minimum-wage legislation that the Administration has already threatened to veto. Bush advisers thought that their strategy of conciliation would play to the chief executive's strengths as a former congressman and a veteran Washington insider. Instead, it has been taken as a sign of weakness. The White House is trying to play touch football, and they don't realize these boys up here are playing tackle, says a top Senate GOP aide.

The article comments on the election of George J. Mitchell as Senate Majority Leader in the U.S. The author notes that the staff of President George Bush feel that Mitchell is particularly vulnerable on taxes. Mitchell believes strongly that the income tax should be made more progressive. The author also adds that Mitchell will try to work with Senate Republicans and Bush to forge a working relationship.

The article reports on the relationship of Republican President George Bush and Democratic Party dominated United States Congress. Some of the issues that will be facing the two political parties are long-term health care benefits, child care subsidies and parental leaves. Democrats would also try hard to control the foreign policy of the government.

The article describes the 1988 U.S. Presidential campaigns being waged by Vice-President George Bush and Governor Michael Dukakis in the states of California, Michigan and New Jersey. while early in the campaign, Dukakis had a 15-point lead in June 1988, recent surveys have revealed that Bush is ahead by seven points in New Jersey.

The article reports that National Federation of Independent Business representative John Motley, a sometime adviser of U.S. Vice-President George Bush, gets mad because of a series of Bush flip-flops over parental leave policy. Bush's proposal has shocked business lobbyists and has angered the Grand Old Party (GOP) conservatives. In addition, Senator Orrin G. Hatch, the top Republican on the Senate Labor & Human Resources Committee, comments that it does not do Bush campaign good.

The article discusses on the challenges that the U.S. Presidential Candidate, Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis is facing for the position. Dukakis has to face a tough fall match up with Vice-President George Bush. For the short run, the candidate has to get over rival candidate Jess Jackson. Aside from his rivals, Dukaki has to cross over Pennsylvania and California, and on the Deep South Democrats as well as the blue-collar workers, whom Bush is trying to woo on.

Reports that United States President George Bush, liberated by his campaign defeat in the 1992 election, has launched a final flurry of activity that has broken the paralysis that gripped much of his administration. Why prime beneficiary of late policy blitz may be President-elect Bill Clinton; Somalia relief efforts; Trade; Asian affairs.

Discusses how Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton's aides realize they have to seize the offensive in the presidential campaign against President George Bush. Clinton has been put on the defensive by Bush's give-'em-hell assault. Importance of upcoming debates; Comparison to past elections where the Democrats held a big lead.

Discusses how United States Secretary of State James A. Baker III, who ran both President George Bush's 1988 campaign and former President Ronald Reagan's 1980 bid, will give the demoralized Bush supporters some badly needed focus and a sense of mission, but that may not be enough. Democratic presidentiail hopeful Bill Clinton's election to lose; Challenges facing Baker.

Discusses how most political analysts continue to believe that the November election remains President George Bush's to lose, and right now he seems to be doing everything possible to lose it. Portents of disaster; Voter reaction to unemployment figures; Panic by Bush.

The article discusses the controversy going on among Americans on the candidature of Bill Clinton, Arkansas state Governor. Political pros predict that Clinton will roll on to the nomination and, barring another brush with scandal, could mount a serious threat to U.S. President George Bush in the fall. In the view of White House strategists, that's a contest President Bush should win. But voters are still flashing angry messages that should give Bush pause. Democrats fret that the controversy over Clinton's lifestyle and ethics and the 25% negative rating he has acquired while defending himself will give the Republicans a chance against him.

This article comments on the 1992 presidential campaign of U.S. President George Bush. Bush has delayed putting the White House into campaign mode for two reasons. He thinks he will benefit from staying Presidential for as long as possible. And he has been unwilling to resolve a bitter internal struggle over who will be the top chief in the 1992 presidential campaign--White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu or a longtime adviser such as Robert M. Teeter. Despite Sununu's many gaffes, Bush appears to have no immediate plans to ditch the combative staff chief--or to freeze him out of campaign decision-making. Until Bush stops dithering the problems will persist. Republicans are terrified by polls showing Bush's approval rating down to 51% and nervous over growing signs of a Republican bloodbath in the 1992 Senate races.

Comments on the U.S. Democratic Party's presidential hopefuls, who plan to make business a prime target in the 1992 campaign. Issues ranging from the Salmon Brothers scandal to the furor over executive pay to the endless bailouts of banks and thrifts; Preview of contenders' campaign themes in Los Angeles, California; Results of a Gallup poll; Prediction of Republican strategists; Views of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton about U.S. President George Bush.

Comments on United States President George Bush's reluctance to begin making plans for his reelection campaign and the negative effect of it on his closest advisors. Lack of credible Democratic adversary to take advantage of the turmoil in the Bush camp; Division among the Republican ranks; Implications of Bush's unwillingness to chalk out a campaign.

The article comments on the political leadership and foreign policy agenda of U.S. President George Bush. The author observes that the President's deeds have no relation to the conventional wisdom with which he is always referred to. The author states that Bush was acclaimed world wide for managing an international coalition that imposed economic sanctions against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

The article comments on the political leadership and foreign policy agenda of U.S. President George Bush. The author observes that the President's deeds have no relation to the conventional wisdom with which he is always referred to. The author also states that the President is proving himself to be audacious in foreign policy. He managed a worldwide coalition that peacefully imposed economic sanctions against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

The article comments on the political leadership of U.S. President George Bush. The author observes that the President's deeds have no relation to the conventional wisdom with which he is always referred to. The author further states that no President in recent times has come to office better prepared to tackle international problems than George Bush. He has served as an envoy to China, U. N. ambassador and director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

The article comments on the personality and political acumen of U.S. President George Bush. The author observes that the President's deeds have no relation to the conventional wisdom with which he is always referred to. The author further states that he may be hesitant about defining a domestic agenda, but when it comes to foreign policy, Bush is proving himself to be a daring leader with an inclination to set impossibly high targets.

Presents information on the presidential candidates for the 1992 elections in the United States. Information on New York Governor Mario M. Cuomo, who might face problems during campaigns because of his arrogance; Report that House Majority Leader Richard A. Gephardt maneuvered U.S. President George Bush into opposing tax increases for millionaires during this year's budget debate; Focus on Georgia Senator Sam Nunn whose experience in national security issues assures him a key role in the continuing debate over defense policy.

Discusses U.S. President George Bush's way of handling a crisis using his carefully cultivated relationships with world leaders and his decisiveness when it comes to key economic and social issues. Reluctance of Bush in other areas of domestic policy; Fondness of Bush for the world stage like former U.S. President Richard Nixon; Comparison of Bush Presidency with that of Nixon's.

Presents information about the impact of U.S. President George Bush's taxation policy on the Democratic Party in the United States. View of Democratic National Committee Chairman Ronald H. Brown that the political situation is swinging their way; Expectation that the Democrats will insist on big tax hikes at a time when the public believes lots of money can be saved in spending cuts; Plan of Democrats to appeal to the middle class by showing the Republican Party as the promoters of greed.

Focuses on dealings of U.S. President George Bush with the Republicans. Efforts of Bush to appease the conservative movement by using White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu, who has good credentials on the right, as a liaison; Information that Bush would not sign a trade agreement unless Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev cut a deal on Lithuanian independence.