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WANT TO SEE A CIVIC MONUMENT THAT NO CITY would ever want? Go to New Orleans and proceed to the intersection of Congress and Law streets, just a few blocks from the tourists' Latin Quarter. Walk anywhere in that neighborhood of trashed storefronts and blunt-shouldered housing projects. It won't take long to find walls that are spattered with grimy little craters. Those are bullet holes. Every one of them is an unofficial memorial to the mayhem that was daily life around there until not so long...
...grilling one of her former Little Rock legal colleagues about Mrs. Clinton's Whitewater work -- he went the reporter one better, saying his wife was the most controversial First Lady since Eleanor Roosevelt. It was a deft and flattering reference to a First Lady who was famous for her blunt candor and who was harshly criticized for her unusually high visibility during FDR's administration. As for the budget, Clinton said that if congressional Republicans would only put off resolving key policy differences on Medicare, Medicaid and the environment until after this year's presidential election, an agreement could...
...statement said that further tests would be conducted to determine whether the pilot had consumed the alcohol or whether its presence was the natural result of "chemical processes following death by blunt trauma...
...minimizing the dangers of carrying out even the limited military tasks of the mission, however. To blunt those dangers, American planners are relying heavily on surveillance equipment and training. Two J-STARS (for Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System) planes will keep watch over Bosnia while flying eight miles above either the Adriatic Sea or Hungary. Their computers can distinguish personnel and troop movements, even though they cannot, unaided, tell a tank from a car. According to plans, the locations of all concentrations of Balkan armor will be entered into the computer memory banks so the j-stars can track...
Faced with a rebellion among conservative Republicans opposed to sending troops to Bosnia, Senate majority leader Bob Dole postponed a vote on a resolution of qualified support for President Clinton's peacekeeping plan. In the House, nearly half the members--mostly Republicans--sent the President a blunt, one-sentence letter: "We urge you not to send ground troops to Bosnia." Clinton said he would not be deterred by congressional dissent...