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...President dropped a bombshell on his left-flank supporters by announcing that he would be willing to consider a Republican-sponsored constitutional amendment allowing prayers in public schools -- depending on the "details." While civil-liberties groups characterized the President's statement as a "cave-in," White House aides scrambled to clarify Clinton's position, explaining that he only meant to express an interest in neutral legislation for a "moment of silence." Democratic allies in Congress were left grumbling about what they saw as yet another presidential waffle...
After the war ended in 1975, reports kept trickling into the CIA's Bangkok station that Americans had been seen among the prisoners working on Laotian road and irrigation projects. In 1979 a Laotian informant for the DIA named Phimmachack claimed that 18 Americans had been moved to a cave north of Nhommarath. He identified one of them as Lieut. Colonel Paul W. Mercland, but no Mercland was listed as missing. There was, however, a Lieut. Colonel Paul W. Bannon who had been shot down over Laos in 1969. Pentagon intelligence analysts suspected Mercland was a garbled version...
...elections. He juggled several excuses for his U-turn in public, but his chief explanation in private was that Ross Perot made him do it. Gingrich lamented to Democratic leaders that the Texas industrialist was bombarding him with telephone calls last Tuesday. Apparently that was enough for Gingrich to cave in. "I know," Gingrich told the leaders afterward, "that there's some distrust on your side about me." That, a Democratic staffer said later, was "the understatement of the year...
...welcome a little "West 57th" in the Square. I just hope the new owners don't feel compelled to cave in to the vocal contingent of late-night grease-seekers...
...attrition. The owners hope that a player strapped for a payment on the cabin cruiser or the chalet in Sun Valley, Idaho, will be more amenable to their point of view come February. The union thinks owners, deprived of the revenue that off-season ticket sales generate, will cave in. Meanwhile, the union has begun to make payments to its members from a $200 million strike fund. Neither side shows an inclination to blink...