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- <title>
- June 18, 1990: American Notes:Politics
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- June 18, 1990 Child Warriors
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 23
- American Notes
- POLITICS
- Return of the Mario Scenario
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> In 1988 New York Governor Mario Cuomo tantalized and
- frustrated Democrats by flirting with the presidential race
- before finally declining to run. Last week, while accepting his
- party's nomination for a third term, he stirred inevitable
- speculation about his designs on the White House in 1992.
- </p>
- <p> Cuomo refused to promise that he would serve a full
- four-year term as Governor. He has already been doing some
- Washington bashing and finger waving about Republican greed's
- being the cause of the savings and loan mess; he considered
- deleting one such section from his address last week, then
- decided to leave it in. New York Democrats have a chance to win
- a majority in the state senate for the first time since 1966,
- and Cuomo will be involved in the effort to wrest control from
- the Republicans.
- </p>
- <p> Thus this scenario: re-elected by a landslide and with both
- houses of the legislature under his control, Cuomo will be
- protected at home and primed to hit the hustings. The Bush
- Administration is so concerned about a potential Cuomo
- challenge that last week drug czar William J. Bennett fired an
- anti-Mario broadside. Said Bennett: "Nobody's afraid of this
- guy."
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- </body>
- </article>
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