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...same time, adoption experts estimate that 500 U.S. children -- most of them black or biracial -- are being placed in homes in Australia, Canada and Western Europe each year. The number could be even higher: because the U.S. has no exit-visa requirements, the Federal Government does not keep count. Moreover, while all 50 states have procedures for domestic adoptions, the Federal Government neither regulates foreigners' adoptions nor follows up to learn how the children are faring. Though a State Department official says there has been talk among his colleagues of erecting safeguards, as yet nothing has been done. Says Susan...
...legislation. TIME Washington correspondent Julie Johnson says that despite the daylong effort, the President does not have the numbers to pass the bill. A vote will occur either Friday or Saturday. Clinton's strategy, says Johnson, is to concentrate his lobbying firepower on the Democrats and not count on any Republicans to jump on his bandwagon...
...sooner had he introduced his bill than Mitchell was calling it "a starting point." Translation: he could count on only about 40 or so votes to support it. Not just politics but principles are involved in this fight. Mitchell knows that if he cannot revise his plan sufficiently to attract a majority, it could be the end of Democratic hopes to shape health-care reform their way. Republicans would be happy to delay the passage of any bill until after the November elections, which are likely to strengthen their numbers in both houses...
David G. Sword '93, the treasurer of the 1991 and 1992 events, will face one count of larceny over $250. Sword is charged with the theft of more than...
Indeed, 65 of the counts against Lee representa check he allegedly wrote for himself from theEliot House fund. The other count covers money Leeallegedly stole "at some point between February 12and November 25, 1992," according to theindictment records...