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...agenda. While CNN quickly said yes today, NBC, ABC and CBS have yet to respond to Gingrich's request for a prerogative traditionally reserved for presidents. "It's certainly symptomatic of his asserting himself as a national personality above and beyond the status most speakers have had," saysTIME Washington contributor Laurence Barrett, who noted that the air time could help Gingrich improve his image. The latest TIME poll shows Gingrich's "negatives" are growing as Americans get more familiar with the Speaker...
...reason for the haste: President Clinton is due to arrive Friday to declare Haiti safe enough for U.S. troops to hand over security duties to a multinational U.N. force. Aristide asked the FBI to investigate the assassination of ultranationalist Mireille Durocher Bertin. A Haitian government source today told TIME contributor Bernard Diederich that Aristide had advance warning of the killing, and offered Bertin protection. Haitian officials insist that the opposition killed one of its own in order to embarrass Aristide and Clinton...
...Pierrepont Finch, the World Wide Wicket Co.'s window washer turned mailroom clerk turned rising executive, Broderick "brings the same quizzical intensity of gaze and naturalness of gesture that carried him to stardom in everything from Neil Simon comedies to the Civil War epic film Glory," says TIME contributor Brad Leithauser. As satire goes, Leithauser adds, director Des McAnuff's amiable version "lacks even some of the mild bite of the original." But "this appealing production urges us all -- whether we are pursuing business success or just a couple of hours' entertainment -- to make light of every obstacle...
...rebels in northern Iraq -- the chief opponents of President Saddam Hussein -- claim to have wounded the leader's oldest son, Udai, in a Baghdad murder attempt and nearly assassinated the country's defense minister. Iranian radio reports said both assassination attempts occurred in the last 48 hours. TIME Istanbul contributor James Wilde says the Kurdish attacks are also disturbing neighboring Turkey, a strong U.S. ally already preoccupied by a series of domestic riots this week...
...Long a contributor to AIDS-related causes, Louganis further extended himself last summer when he gave a diving exhibition at the Gay Games in New York City and declared himself a homosexual. The gay community had known this for years, of course, but it still took courage for Louganis to come out to the general public-the most famous male athlete ever to make such a declaration. He decided to do the book because, he writes, "I hope my story will help anyone who has to face adversity...Maybe I can prevent one teenager from being infected with...