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Deregulation is the bill's calling card in nearly every area but one: protecting children from the alleged harmful effects of media exposure. To allay concerns about violent TV fare, the bill requires that new TV sets be equipped with a V-chip--a device that allows parents automatically to lock out programs labeled as high in violence. And computer pornography is targeted by a provision that sets criminal penalties for anyone caught sending indecent material over the Internet without ensuring that minors won't have access to it. Civil-liberties groups objected to the measure as a violation...
...that there are so many dollars at stake and that the Establishment must have funds to continue all aspects of the practice of medicine, I often wonder if there is a subconscious "agent" at work. The study done by the Journal of the American Medical Association does nothing to allay my fears in this regard. TOM MARTIN La Grange, Illinois...
...GOPAC disclosures put Gingrich under a cloud just as his party enters the final weeks of budget negotiations with the White House. To allay the image problem, Gingrich transferred responsibility for day-to-day budget bargaining to majority leader Dick Armey and Budget Committee chairman John Kasich. To some extent, Gingrich will try to rely on others, including such unlikely spokesmen as freshman J.C. Watts of Oklahoma, to make the sales pitches on talk shows and press conferences. Gingrich has even vowed to get more sleep. The self-benching has some Gingrich aides worried about the "message vacuum" that will...
More judicious attention to the work of sculptor David Smith (1906-1965) might allay some of these concerns. Expertly curated by Sarah Kianovsky, "This work is my identity" demonstrates just how effectively avant-garde artists can address social concerns...
Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is trying to allay international fears about his recent uneven behavior with a promise that he will abide by elections to choose his successor. "I am leaving on Feb. 7," Aristide was quoted as saying in an interview with Libete, an independent Creole-language weekly newspaper that he founded and directs. The Clinton Administration has been downplaying a spate of killings and riots in the last two weeks after Aristide made incendiary remarks about political opponents and elites. TIME's Tammerlin Drummond reports that the timing couldn't have been worse for Clinton: "Haiti...