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- GRAPEVINE, Page 19The Morning Line
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- By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David Ellis
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- The odds on leaders likely to fall next:
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- Corazon Aquino, the Philippines
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- Even money. Do seven failed tries deserve another? No. But
- with the economy in shambles, the coups keep coming.
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- Hun Sen, Cambodia
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- 3 to 1. With the Chinese, Vietnamese and Thais all
- squabbling over Cambodia, the country is rapidly going to Pol
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- Fidel Castro, Cuba
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- 7 to 2. Whipping up resentment about the U.S.'s TV Marti
- broadcasts won't feed his people if Moscow's $10 million-a-day
- subsidy wanes.
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- Mobutu Sese Seko, Zaire
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- 7 to 2. Finally balking at reports of his $3 billion fortune
- and palatial residences in several countries, the World Bank
- wants to cut aid, and so does Congress.
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- Margaret Thatcher, Britain
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- 4 to 1. Wimpy Tories afraid to tell her that the poll tax
- has been too taxing on her polls have a dream scheme: get
- husband Denis to ask her to retire.
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