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...SMOKING CIGAR...
...Belmont Park, strongly favored Cigar captured the $3 million Breeders' Cup Classic in record time to cap a dazzling undefeated season...
...struck, "They're so happy that they're giddy over there" -- over there meaning in the office of Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama. And by transatlantic telephone Bill Clinton told U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor, "Hey, Mick, congratulations. It sounds like you did great." It may not have been a cigar-on-the-veranda moment for the President, but he was clearly pleased. And, maybe more to the point, relieved...
...stretched thin. The Bosnian government's forces lack heavy weaponry but have grown to about 150,000 troops. "The Bosnian Serbs are overextended," U.S. General John Galvin, the former NATO commander, said in Washington last week, "and they are outnumbered." Still, they have artillery. Norman Cigar, a military analyst at the Marine Corps School of Advanced Warfighting outside Washington, says the Bosnian advantage in manpower and the Serbs' advantage in artillery create a "recipe for an indecisive, bloody, volatile stalemate...
...euphoria was not limited to the O'Grady household. In the White House, Lake decided it was time to allow himself a moment of mild celebration. "Mr. President," he declared, "with or without your permission, I'm going to smoke a cigar." Clinton was one step ahead of his Security Adviser. "Well, come on over," he replied, "I'm having one too." Sidestepping the First Lady's ban on White House smoking, the two men walked out onto the second-floor Truman Balcony, gazed in the direction of the Washington Monument and lit up a pair of stogies...