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...many as 70,000 Serbs could join the exodus by March 19. After talks with NATO officials, Krajisnik said that if the handover is not deferred, many Serbs will abandon the city, "and those who stay might organize armed resistance." The day before he spoke, one or more Serbs fired an antitank rocket that hit a streetcar in downtown Sarajevo, killing a 55-year-old woman. But Carl Bildt, civilian administrator of the peace accords, insists the transfer of power will go ahead...
...principles at stake in the fight to balance the budget, there may be just one that neither Republicans nor Democrats dare to abandon: the pleasure principle. It rests on two basic premises. The first is that if you make voters happy, they repay the kindness at election time. The second is that the fastest way to their hearts is through their wallets. As Gingrich put it in November, "No politician in the 20th century has been defeated for cutting taxes...
...OFFENDS ME THAT DOLE (AND CLINton too, for that matter) wants to be President so badly that he has placed more faith in the ''pros'' than in himself. It is my hope that voters will reject any candidate who chooses to abandon his or her past and trash core beliefs in the hope of winning an election. THOMAS CARSON Simsbury, Connecticut Via E-mail...
...words of a man making an unprecedented visit. "It's truly grand. I've never seen anything like this before," said Paul Thomas. "Everybody's come together." Indeed they had, by the tens of thousands, Protestant and Catholic, Unionist and Republican. They carried babies, waved flags and cheered with abandon when Bill Clinton, the first American President ever to visit Northern Ireland, flipped the switch that lit up a 49-ft. white pine Christmas tree, flown in from Nashville, Tennessee, the sister city of Belfast...
...question pro football fans are asking in Cleveland, Houston, Chicago, Tampa, Phoenix, Seattle and Cincinnati--all cities whose professional football teams are threatening to leave. It's the same question once asked by fans in Los Angeles, Baltimore, St. Louis, Oakland and New York--all cities whose teams did abandon them in the 1980s and '90s. No Fixed Location? No Fan Loyalty? National Flux League...