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...with some international relief. He met with the new Albanian Prime Minister, Bashkim Fino, on Friday, then went to the southern port of Vlora to talk with rebel leaders. But it seemed doubtful that his rounds would be any more effective than the prayer of Mother Teresa, who from Calcutta said of her fellow Albanians, "May God bring them joy, prosperity, peace and unity." First of all, Albania is in need of sanity...
...know what was on the other side, then we would sail our ship. We would have Happy Hour every hour and it wouldn't be predicated upon alcohol. We would hike in the Andes mountains full time, or spend our total effort working to help the indigent in Calcutta, or continually enjoying roasted goat in Rome...
...working for both Democrats and Republicans--a career strategy that has made him a traitor in the eyes of people in both parties. He could work simultaneously for Jesse Helms and Mother Teresa and see no inherent contradiction. (Helms, in fact, has been a Morris client; the Saint of Calcutta hasn't called him as yet.) What these critics overlook, says Henry Sheinkopf, a consultant who works with Morris on the Clinton media team, "is that Dick is a man of the sensible middle: a brilliant strategist, of course, but one driven by centrist ideas. He wants to draw politicians...
...often difficult to attain. On the other hand, Time Warner could distribute Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Wile E. Coyote throughout the world via Turner's fast-growing Cartoon Network, and combine HBO with Turner channels into an attractively priced package for operators of cable systems from Moscow to Calcutta...
...Gushes d'Alpuget: ``He's got the stamina of a man of 40. Am I smiling or what?'' Western Australia's Premier Richard Court was disgusted: ``When former Prime Ministers are selling stories about their private lives for money, I think it is as low as you can go.'' CALCUTTA: Arsenic Agony When villagers in the Indian state of West Bengal began drilling tube wells in the 1960s, they thought they would be drinking pure artesian H2O. They were mistaken. Since 1983, more than 100,000 cases of arsenic poisoning have been reported; the consequences range from skin discoloration...