And so the question is, at what point can we have aserious conversation about Medicare and its long-term liability, or aserious question about -- aserious conversation about Social Security, or aserious conversation about budget and debt in which we're not simply trying to position ourselves politically.
"Clearly, the Bush Administration is nervous about the real prospect that the pressure mounting on it from Moscow and allied capitals to bail out the USSR will prove aserious domestic political liability, " said Frank J.