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Three senior Republican Senators put on the brakes Tuesday, voicing doubts about the wisdom of a Republican plan that combines cuts in the Medicare and Medicaid programs with a tax cut. Orrin Hatch, Alan Simpson and Alfonse D'Amato raised questions as the Senate Finance Committee began work on the GOP legislation. "I have never been for a tax cut for the rich or anyone else," Simpson said. D'Amato, whose constituents include millions of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries as well as a huge medical industry, seemed to agree with the Clinton Administration, saying that the Democrats' argument that...
...while trying to catch up with the G.O.P. front runners, Wilson repeated that "only three of us can expect to raise the table stakes for the whole primary campaign." This meant that only he, Dole and Phil Gramm--and not Pat Buchanan, Richard Lugar, Lamar Alexander, Arlen Specter or Alan Keyes--could hope to raise the estimated $20 million needed for the nomination marathon. Yet his organization's own estimates put Wilson's total last week just above $6 million, in contrast to $17 million for Dole and more than $12 million for Gramm. TIME has learned not only that...
...that is, until last week. At 9:41 on Tuesday morning, a Belarussian helicopter gunship opened fire on a balloon captained by Alan Fraenckel, 55, an airline pilot with TWA, and his partner, John Stuart-Jervis, 68, a retired British pilot who made his home in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Within seconds they were dead--shot out of the sky over a remote Belarussian forest...
...Alan McClennen, Jr. '61, trustee of Cambridge Savings Bank, said the bank is "committed to being a good neighbor" in the Harvard Square community and will work to attract local tenants...
...realize the gossamer dream that last year enveloped Heather Whitestone, the first deaf Miss America. But in the months leading to that night, the pageant has been slapped with unseemly controversy. A Miss Maryland runner-up charges she was denied her state title because of vote rigging--and attorney Alan Dershowitz is helping press her case. Other state runners-up are vexed because a woman who had lost the Miss New Jersey competition four times decamped to Delaware and won the title there. The Virginia delegate was stripped of her title after claims that she inflated her credentials. And throughout...