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When Francisco Duran sprayed the White House with bullets on October 29 he may have been taking aim at a gray-haired, red-faced man on the grounds who, from a distance resembles President Clinton, law enforcement officials told the Associated Press today. The presence of Dennis Basso, 40 -- a fund-raiser for Hugh Rodham's ill-fated Florida Senate campaign -- is one of the reasons prosecutors are charging Duran with assassination, the official said, instead of treating the incident as the work of a madman. Duran's lawyer has maintained that "the 27 rounds were fired toward a building...
HUMBUG, JOBLESS: But newly-empowered Republicans praised Greenspan and hinted that they may give him what he has long desired: the freedom to pursue monetary policies without particular concern for full-employment policies. Currently, the Fed's directive -- in force since 1978 -- requires the central bank to pursue the aim of maximum employment, stable prices and moderate, long-term interest rates. But Sen. Connie Mack (R-Fla.), future chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, said today that he would "seek to remove all aspects of employment and economic control from the Fed's mandates." The Economic Strategy Institute, a liberal...
...aim is to preserve whatever it is that is special or unique about Harvard Square," said Defense Fund President Pebble Gifford, who introduced the discussion...
Zhirinovsky: I wouldn't say that America is an enemy in the literal sense of the word. There are no straightforward military actions. ((But)) a secret war has been going on for 50 years now . . . If your aim was to bring Russia to collapse, ((perestroika)) was perfectly executed because you could have done nothing better to destroy Russia...
Thirdly, The Crimson has no authority whatsoever to dictate the terms by which ethnic student organizations should operate. To mandate my resignation The Crimson embraces a paternalistic-style agenda that aims to damage and destruct the efforts of Black students, faculty and administrators. Over the past 15 months, perpetuated attacks have been launched against Rev. Gomes, Dean Archie Epps, Dr. Alien Counter, Mayor Ken Reeves, Professor martin Kilson, and now myself. The Crimson seems to operate under some poorly hidden agenda in which its editors unsuccessfully aim to break others down in an attempt to rebuild its own questionable image...