Word: blocks
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...sponsored by Rep. Martin Hoke (R-Ohio) and Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio), would require teams intending to relocate to give 180 days notice to the host community, and also provide an antitrust exemption to shield other professional sports leagues from lawsuits if they decide to block a relocation. The Browns move, which is scheduled to take place next year, has left the city of Cleveland so distraught that Mayor Michael White testified Wednesday before a Senate subcommittee hearing on antitrust issues raised by the team's pending move...
...said he will send 20,000 troops to enforce a peace agreement, and Americans are deeply concerned about this prospect. They are not convinced that their sons and daughters should die for the sake of Sarajevo. Last Friday, in an extraordinary move, the House of Representatives voted to block Clinton from spending any money on the deployment of troops in Bosnia until both houses of Congress specifically authorize it. For peace to take hold in Bosnia, though, an American-led NATO force is probably essential. The coincidence last week of progress in the peace talks and Congress's reluctance...
NEWS HAS A DISQUIETING HABIT of finding TIME's Johanna McGeary. In March 1981 she was one of the first reporters on the scene after Ronald Reagan was shot in Washington, a block away from where she had been lunching. In January 1994 she filed extensively on Los Angeles' Northridge earthquake, after the house at which she had been staying during a one-day travel stopover was rocked. And then, two weeks ago, she found herself in Jerusalem the day Yitzhak Rabin was killed...
...meanspirited ideas can only bring about a more divided nation, with the rich at one end and the forgotten poor at the other. America, down here in Louisiana, we knew Huey Long. Huey Long was a friend of ours. Pat Buchanan is no Huey Long. MATTHEW F. BLOCK Thibodaux, Louisiana Via E-mail...
Creating what Secretary of State Warren Christopher called "an essential building block to peace," Croats and Muslims signed an agreement at talks in Dayton, Ohio, to strengthen their political and economic federation, which would control one part of Bosnia; the remaining territory would be Serb-run. But lest the meetings become too productive, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman renewed his threat to retake a strip of Serb-held territory in eastern Croatia if negotiations do not provide its return by Nov. 30. Christopher warned Croatian leaders not to use force...