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...took aim at two more congressional proposals. G.O.P. leaders in the House postponed a vote on their foreign-aid bill after the President blasted its cuts and its "isolationist" policy directives as a "frontal assault" on presidential authority. Meanwhile, Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman warned that a presidential veto would await any attempt to revamp the federal food-stamp program into a block-grant package to the states...
More than 2,000 Marines from Camp Lejeune have arrived in the Adriatic Sea, and now await adecision by the Clinton Administration on whether to send them into Bosnia. The White House said it "would not rule out" ground action to release the nearly 400 UN hostages currently held by Bosnian Serb forces. ButTIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompsonsays sending the 24th Marine Amphibious Expeditionary Unit after the hostages is highly unlikely. "In the first place, it's an amazingly difficult mission to expect these Marines to find 400 people in these mountains where the Serbs have lived for hundreds...
...this American may be her passport out. But Richard already has a wife, and in order to rescue his Eve he has to enlist the support of an acquaintance, a dull young English schoolteacher named Hugo, in a marriage of convenience. How the plans go awry and what consequences await the sultry Lourdes in provincial England provide one of the novel's darker, not to say drizzlier, ironies. As another character remarks, "In Cuba, you believe everything or you believe nothing. Because everything is crazy ... Nothing makes sense in Cuba." Under these circumstances Richard should have realized that nothing...
Perhaps Havel will enlighten us as to his past actions. But more significantly, we await the address of the statesperson and linguistic enthusiast who wrote: "Words that electrify society with their freedom and truthfulness are matched by words that mesmerize, deceive, inflame, madden; words that are harmful, even lethal. The word as arrow." What words...
...council will await further House action before issuing any recommendation, Healy said...