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Last week the verbal posturing gave way to desperate, eleventh-hour arm- twisting and compromises, as House Democratic leaders scrambled to find the votes they need to override a possible presidential veto. It was a spectacle the Republicans enjoyed. "The Democrats are not going to get the votes they need, and that will finish off civil rights for this year," crowed G.O.P. whip Newt Gingrich. Privately, civil rights lobbyists acknowledged that Gingrich was right...
Toward that goal, Baker will cajole and maneuver -- but serious pressure on Israel is unlikely. Baker truly believes that the parties themselves have to want peace if anything is to change. A flawed compromise (which in the current context means a solution that results from superpower arm-twisting), Baker wrote in his senior paper, "would alienate both parties and would, in the long run, be worse than adopting either's . . . all-out solutions." So while the Administration considered telling the Israelis that aid would be frozen unless they stopped building settlements on the occupied West Bank, few top officials advocate...
Weeks of invisible diplomacy and quiet arm twisting by the U.S. have produced the first significant step toward an Arab-Israeli peace conference. Flying to the region on Saturday for his fourth round of talks in two months, Secretary of State James Baker said Saudi Arabia and its five allies in the Gulf Cooperation Council will send an observer to the conference if it is held. They will also participate in regional working groups on problems like arms control and water resources...
...food and medicine. Every so often she shakes uncontrollably for a few moments -- a legacy of the nerve-system damage that occurred when she suffered a shortfall of blood and oxygen just before birth. Between these seizures, she is unusually quiet and lethargic, lying on her side with one arm draped across her chest and the other bent to touch her face, sleeping day and night in the comfort of her cushioned warming table. At best, it will be three or four months before she is well enough to leave the hospital, and even then she may continue to shake...
HARVARD GUARDS health information as obsessively as it did the details of the recent presidential search. Few have even heard of the Environmental Health and Safety Office, the bureaucratic arm that charts the pollution on campus...