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The United Nations Security Council, intent on keeping the heat on the Bosnian Serbs, has unanimously passed a resolution demanding "immediate and unrestricted access" to areas where war crimes may have been committed. In other events, the brouhaha between President Clinton and Bob Dole over who, if anyone, should spend...
Hardly a week goes by without some fact gathered, some nugget of data gleaned or some key piece of reporting made possible by research-center librarians and their computer databases. For a story on Haiti's upcoming elections, for example, center staff members faxed and E-mailed a background briefing...
Washington loves the seven-year plan. Wednesday, President Clinton vetoed the Republican version; today, he proposed one of his own, albeit with smaller reductions to Medicare and Medicaid and fewer tax cuts. Still, Clinton's budget hits welfare, transportation and housing the hardest to save $141 billion more than his...
"A journey through the new world reordering" is what TIME executive editor Joe Ferrer called the itinerary for the first of our 11 Newstours to circle the globe. We chose destinations that would let us explore the dynamics of countries facing tough transitions, primarily from socialism to freer markets and...
The report was not well received. Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Arlen Specter said it "leaves a lot to be desired" and accused the agency of a "deliberate withholding of information" on Alpirez. House Intelligence Committee member Bill Richardson called the report "not terribly visionary in what needs to be done...