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Then, all of a sudden, my representative in Washington was whisked away from me, and slick-haired Richie Neal--a Democrat, yes, but no Olver--was now my representative. In spite of the hopeful fact that a new party was also on the brink of winning the presidency for the first time since I was almost too small to remember, Weld's move shook me. It was that easy for the governor to render months, even years, of grassroots organizing in Northampton--Olver's stronghold and home base--completely useless at the following election. While Weld's move didn...
...Will Lead the Parade. The "someday" is, of course, after death. But Loveless doesn't have to wait that long. She already leads the parade of country's lost souls and lonesome cowgirls. She keeps them in step, hearts heavy, heads high, singing all the way to the brink...
...opponents of the act are strange bedfellows indeed. The American Civil Liberties Union is contesting the new law and has already won a restraining order against its enforcement, pending the court's judgment. They are joined by anarchist militia types who think the United States is on the brink of tossing the Constitution into the garbage and who are ready at any moment to rise up against the government to destroy...
...action and the material used point directly to November 17." November 17 is the only Greek guerrilla group to have used antitank missiles. TIME's Anthee Carassavas reports that the leftist movement it supports is still rankling over U.S. intervention after Greece and Turkey came to the brink of war last month over claims to a small by symbolic islet in the south Aegan sea. "This comes amid a period of rising anti-American sentiment which has been fueled by the outome of that crisis. President Clinton sent in troubleshooter Richard Holbrooke, who reached an eleventh-hour deal to have...
...from now by Aristide, who may not succeed himself under Haiti's constitution, but can run again later. The problems of the western hemisphere's poorest nation will not wait for the millennium, though, and it looks as though Preval has about three months to return Haiti from the brink of anarchy. TIME's Tammerlin Drummond reports: "It's going to be a pretty tall order for him because he does not enjoy the love of the people that Aristide did." The new president must try to lead a nation with 70 percent unemployment and no established political institutions...