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...focus of non-proliferation efforts during the President's visit will be on getting India and Pakistan to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which may be a long shot given Mr. Clinton's failure to have it ratified on Capitol Hill last year. "Naturally last year's vote undercuts U.S. bargaining power," says Waller. "The Indians will simply say, 'Why should we rush to sign when your own Senate won't even ratify it?'" Nonetheless, both sides are expected to sign on at some point in the future, and Washington also wants to draw them into discussions...
...stick that thing where?) scares most Americans away from the very screening test that could save their life. Is it any wonder that 99% of Americans, when asked to name a potentially fatal disease, don't think of colorectal cancer (according to a survey released last week on Capitol Hill...
...Brien is the one causing the feud on Capitol Hill. In November, House Speaker Dennis Hastert received a list of three finalists for the position of chaplain, winnowed from a group of some 50 candidates by a bipartisan committee. Hastert and majority leader Dick Armey outvoted minority leader Richard Gephardt to select the Rev. Charles Wright, a Presbyterian affiliated with the House's influential National Prayer Breakfast. In so doing they passed over the nominating committee's favorite, Father O'Brien, a Catholic priest...
...plan was announced at a news conference held yesterday afternoon in the state capitol by Gov. A. Paul Cellucci, Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly, and Insurance Commissioner Linda L. Ruthardt...
...defend Taiwan against any aggression by that same government. But with tensions raised by election-season rhetoric both in Taiwan and the U.S., Taipei's military shopping list leaves Washington facing the unhappy choice of provoking a backlash either from Beijing or from Taiwan's vocal supporters on Capitol Hill...