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...that hasn't condemned the June 25 election as fraudulent, has claimed victory. But the results are not yet clear. The hand-tallied count due out last Saturday still has not been released, and, according to partial results available early today, about half the seats in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies are due for August runoffs. Aristide, whose term ends next February, cannot succeed himself, but has said he might run again in 2000.TINDER BOX? Insiders say that the Port-au-Prince mayoral election results are so explosive that public reaction to them could jeopardize national stability, TIME...
...machine gun had a bullet in its chamber and nine more bullets in its magazine, according to police...
Only an hour was left in the debate over Henry Foster's doomed nomination as Surgeon General last week when Senator Bob Smith, a beefy New Hampshire Republican, lumbered into the almost empty Senate chamber with a plastic fetus, an easel and six huge posters. For the next 30 minutes, he unnerved his colleagues--and the summer tourists who packed the galleries--with an excruciatingly detailed description of a medical procedure that abortion opponents call partial-birth abortion. "In illustration No. 4," Smith said calmly, "the abortionist takes a pair of scissors and inserts the scissors into the back...
Foster's allies were livid and rushed back to the chamber. Though the Tennessee obstetrician and gynecologist had acknowledged performing 39 abortions during his 38-year career, no one had accused him of doing or even of condoning the grisly procedure described by Smith. "It's outrageous to bring something like that on the Senate floor," Illinois Democrat Carol Moseley-Braun complained...
...Gramm (R-Tex.)threatened to block his own party's budget if it does not cut taxes for families and investors. "This is a defining moment for our party and for our country, and I will cut no deals with America's future," Gramm told a United States Junior Chamber of Commerce meeting in St. Louis. "If they negotiatea budget with no family tax cuts and no incentives for growth, I will stop it cold." Gramm, who failed to gain support for a tax-cut package similar to the $350 billion House package, noted that Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole...