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...others, who are worried that the Bells would use their clout in local markets and local politics to steer customers toward signing up with them for long-distance service. Competitors fret too that the Bells already have the phone lines, switches and other equipment in place to enable them to enter the long-distance business before new companies can begin to offer local service...
...Things are now so bad in American labor relations that aunionisn't enough," says TIME's Bernard Baumohl. Faced with declining memberships and dwindling political clout, leaders of the major auto, steel and machinists unions today said they would merge into a a 2 million-member superunion by the year 2000. That way, Baumohl says, the United Auto Workers, the Steelworkers and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers could stage "much wider strikes in many different industries that would put much more pressure on the business sector when any of their brethren are threatened." Why now? "Virtually every...
Milosevic insists that the U.S., along with Serbia, oversee the Balkan peace process, a reflection of his conviction that the Europeans either lack the leadership clout or have too many conflicting interests in the former Yugoslavia to impose a settlement, and that the U.N. is too weak to do so. Can he deliver on his part of any bargain? Possibly, but he will need time to bring the Bosnian Serbs into line and convince Serbs in general that he is not selling out their cause. "Like it or not, there's nothing else out there," says an insider in Belgrade...
...believes the deficit will be completely relieved, however. Instead California will again be a trailblazer. As the Federal Government devolves more independence--but less money--to the states, and the states do the same to the counties, those with the least clout are likely to lose the most. Says Yaroslavsky: "The people who need government and government services don't have political power. The ones who do have political power don't need government and don't want to pay for it." Too bad for Teodora's son Jesus...
...Under the Russian Constitution," saysTIME's J.F.O. McAllister, "the President has a lot of trump cards to play." Mindful ofBoris Yeltsin's constitutional clout, the Russian parliament has dropped its push to begin impeachment proceedings against him. Instead, they called on Yeltsin to dismiss his "power ministers" (those responsible for the army and security forces) for their mishandling of the war in Chechnya. Yeltsin may get rid of the ministers as the price of winning a vote of confidence scheduled for July 1. If it works, he can head off a crisis in which he would either have todismiss...