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...days after they arranged a shaky ceasefire, Russian and Chechen officials agreed to a two-day truce to try for a negotiated settlement to the two-month-old civil war. The commander of Moscow's troops in Chechnya, Col. Gen. Anatoly Kulikov, claimed the agreement had averted an all-out massacre. But Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudayev said the pending talks between envoys were too low-level to accomplish anything serious. "You never can stop a war by means of negotiations between commanders," he told reporters. A taste of what's to come: this afternoon, 50 Chechen presidential guards arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHECHNYA . . . FINGERS CROSSED FOR NEW TRUCE | 2/15/1995 | See Source »

...would like to see an all-out war for lower rates," Galluccio said...

Author: By Manlio A. Goetzl, | Title: City Council Discusses Cable Costs | 2/14/1995 | See Source »

...overgrown jungle near the equator, a border conflict shows every sign of escalating into an all-out war. For the first time in years, the United States is leaving a 'bush-war' alone...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Staying Out of Peru | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

...seems obvious: For openers, the President should further promote the EITC. Many Americans still don't know they qualify for it, and many of those who do get it don't realize they're also eligible for food stamps. Above all, Clinton should invest his dwindling political capital in an all-out drive for his job-retraining programs. Upgrading worker skills remains the surest route to increased incomes. As Clinton says, ``What you earn depends on what you learn; the most effective way to help is to make workers more productive because wages reflect the value of what people produce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINIMUM WAGE, MINIMUM SENSE | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the Democrats' parliamentary ace and self-appointed guardian of the Senate's deliberative role, launched an all-out effort to slow down what he called the Republican "steamroller." Byrd's filibuster-like maneuvers reduced to a snail's pace the Senate's debate of a bill that would restrict the ability of Congress to impose unfunded regulatory mandates on the states. His exploitation of an arcane rule regarding committee meeting times also forced the Judiciary Committee to halt-if for only one day-its consideration of a balanced-budget amendment. Majority leader Bob Dole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: JANUARY 15-21 | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

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