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...bill would have forced signatories of a petition to censure or impeach a council member to make their names public, allowed them to remove their names from such a petition at any time for any reason and required the petition to contain ten signatures at all times...
Liston, however, successfully introduced an amendment to change the bill so that any disciplinary petition would have to contain ten signatures at all times...
Meanwhile, two letters that McVeigh wrote to his hometown newspaper in upstate New York have come to light. For the most part, they resemble many missives from cranky citizens published in small-town papers. But they also contain ominous passages. "Is civil war imminent?" he wrote the Lockport Union-Sun & Journal in February 1992. Some of McVeigh's views are apparently shared by his younger sister Jennifer, 21, who wrote a letter to the paper herself last month, raging about Waco. Authorities are now questioning Jennifer, a student at Niagara County Community College and a former barmaid at the Crazy...
...from culture: chaotic Western concepts of freedom cannot be applied to societies based on order and stability. There is the argument from economics: undue press attacks undermine development. There is the argument from idealism: an irresponsible press is apt to spread racial and ethnic hatred. All of these assertions contain elements of truth. It is nearly impossible to export the First Amendment to countries without deep roots and habits of freedom. In many parts of the world, journalists lack any tradition of objective reporting. But for the most part, the fight against press freedom comes down to politicians protecting themselves...
...Clinton, ever mindful of Florida's 25 electoral votes, has been working both to appease the Cuban-American lobby and to solve the refugee problem without giving too much of a boost toCuban President Fidel Castro. Today's solution "should be seen as part of Clinton's campaign to contain andplease the Cuban Americans," McAllister says...