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...places of worship are not for vandalizing, flags are not for burning," said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) The 312-120 vote -- which included support from 219 Republicans and 93 Democrats -- easily surpassed the two-thirds majority needed to alter the Constitution. TIME's Laurence Barrett says the bill has a "very good chance" of clearing the required 38 state legislatures, "not because many elected officials enthusiastically support it, but rather because it's the politically easy thing to do." It would first have to clear a more "sober and cautious" Senate, he adds, where 67 votes...
...business. Although President Clinton has called aRepublican proposal to reduce foreign aid spendingfrom $12.7 billion to $11.8 billion next year "isolationist," Buchanan is pushing the GOP to wipe out funding entirely. "The isolationist, anti-NAFTA constituency is one of three groups Buchanan is appealing to," says TIME's Laurence Barrett, "the others being the gun control people and the social conservatives. What he is trying to do is become the main alternative to all the mainstream Republican candidates. He wants to seal off the Right wing of the party and hope that all the candidates in the middle split...
...special three-judge court today appointed David Barrett, a former counsel to the House ethics committee, to investigate whether HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros committed a crime by misleading the FBI about payments to his former mistress during pre-confirmation background checks. "Information provided by Secretary Cisneros concerning his payments to (Linda) Medlar was false," Reno told a special court when she asked for the appointment March 14. People familiar with the case have said a number of lawyers who were approached for the position took themselves out of consideration because they had done legal work involving Cisneros' department...
...Time, "issues are going to have a moral quotient." The Christian Coalition, says Arthur Kropp of People for the American Way, "won't be content to be background music." They will want the oomph of the big band. And a choirboy will lead them. --With reporting by Laurence I. Barrett, traveling with Ralph Reed, and Richard N. Ostling/New York
Captain Samuel Barrett Edes met his "mermaid" in Java or Batavia. Thoroughly convinced that it was a veritable mermaid, Captain Edes stole $6,000 of his ship's money, purchased the creature and left for London, where he planned to exhibit his acquisition for pecuniary returns. His ploy failed and he returned to Boston to die, with no possessions save his mermaid, which he believed in until the end. His son sold the creature to Moses Kimball, who exhibited it to P.T. Barnum...