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...predicament of a Los Angeles hangout called Bar Deluxe shows the problem in miniature. It had found the right location for a hip outpost -- a seedy Hollywood neighborhood, surrounded by crack dealers on corners and prostitutes strolling the pavement. And the right decor -- heavy black iron gates and a garbage bin next to the door. In no time, it got crowds. But not even six months after its January opening, disaster struck: an enthusiastic write-up in the Los Angeles Times. Owner Janice DeSoto expects to survive the blow, but she knows there will be a price...
...with the Treasury Department regarding a Whitewater-related savings & loan probe. The GOP response, summed up by Wisconsin Representative Toby Roth: "This thing smells to high heaven." Expect the rhetoric to grow worse, says TIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan. In further hearings this week, Republicans will get a crack at officials who allegedly had a hand in the White House/Treasury fiasco...
There was no effort to crack down on "unlicensed" merchandise, nor was there any effort to check for health violations in the Hibachis framed in blue tapestries on an rickety table. No one was getting rich, they were just getting to the next show and feeding and clothing fellow humans in the process. Unrestrained capitalism, without fetter or regulation turns ugly when loosed upon industrial production...
Kozyrev: Talk with ((Vladimir)) Zhirinovsky and with ((Communist Party leader Gennadi)) Zyuganov. Zyuganov drew a parallel between the Partnership for Peace and Hitler's Barbarossa plan for invading Russia! That is their mentality. The alternative is clear. Their scenario is Yugoslavia: use force to crack down on republics and re-establish the empire or whatever you chose to call...
...scored in last year's legislative polls. Moreover, the government's pro-European stance was undermined by an anti-Maastricht movement headed by conservative Deputy Philippe de Villiers. Last week's wan showing and the fading chances of a leftist victory next year are likely to crack the right's brittle unity. Gaullist Prime Minister Edouard Balladur could be joined in the race for the Elysee by the neo-Gaullist party chief Jacques Chirac, whose prospects had been eclipsed by Balladur's Teflon popularity, and former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. To crowd the field further, populist tycoon Bernard Tapie...