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...Margot Hornblower. With reporting by Dan Cray/Los Angeles and Ralph Holmes/Montgomery
...didn't quite work out that way. The new Prime Minister initially snubbed Dan Meridor, a Likud veteran who was the preferred choice of a dump-Netanyahu movement within the party last fall. Under pressure from key Likud members, Netanyahu named Meridor as Finance Minister. Netanyahu also tried to humble Ariel Sharon, the hawkish and outspoken former Defense Minister, offering him the housing ministry. Sharon, expecting something grander, declined. The party closed ranks behind Sharon, and Netanyahu offered him a new and powerful infrastructure ministry. By the end of last week, Sharon was still sulking and hadn't given...
...British triple jumper Jonathan Edwards, 30, is the first man to hop, skip and jump 60 ft.; and Czech javelin thrower Jan Zelezny, 30, had 21 of last year's 22 longest throws. Barring the kind of bad luck that kept him off the U.S. team for Barcelona, decathlete Dan O'Brien, who turns 30 the day before the opening ceremonies, will get his overdue gold. Jackie Joyner-Kersee of the U.S., if healthy, is clearly the favorite in the women's heptathlon, which she won in Seoul and Barcelona. She is a tad less dominant in the long jump...
...island, hundreds of foreign companies, from Benetton to Toyota, have poured at least $5 billion into Cuba; and most U.S. companies would jump at the opportunity to invest--just as they are doing in Vietnam. Sponsored by two conservative Republicans, North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms and Indiana Congressman Dan Burton, the bill enjoyed strong support among Cuban Americans and the right. President Clinton, with an eye to re-election, signed it in March...
...request of the sufferer, and to compare it with Hitler's euthanasia ignores the obvious difference: "at the request of the sufferer." If the person suffering is able to think and communicate his or her wishes, that is a different scenario from the issue relating to Hitler in war. DAN CARLSON Pennsville, New Jersey Via E-mail...