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Christopher announced today that the Bosnia peace talks will be held at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, starting on October 31. TIME's Douglas Waller reports that the State Department sought a large facility that has roughly equal houses for each president -- where, as State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns put it, "they don't have to bump into each every morning over orange juice. They're all presidents and they don't like each other. If you put Milosevic in a building that's nicer than Tudjman's, there are going to be problems at the very...
...conscience that forced Klein to end the campaign. Stephen Watson, chairman of Dayton Hudson's department-store division, asked that his stores' names not be associated with the ads. At least one major magazine, Seventeen, refused to carry the campaign. Donald Wildmon's American Family Association wrote to 50 retailers, threatening a boycott of their stores. Pickets were expected at the opening of Klein's flagship emporium in Manhattan on Sept. 7. That was enough for Klein to conclude that his message--"the inner worth of today's young people"--wasn't flying...
...phone call reached Rush Limbaugh at his studio shortly before he went on the air at noon, but this time the person on the other end of the line was not Bob, a machinist from Dayton, Ohio, or Dorothy, a housewife from Tucson, Arizona. It was Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve and the second most powerful man in Washington, calling Limbaugh to lobby for Bill Clinton's $40 billion rescue package for Mexico. The 10-min. chat, which took place four weeks ago, was cordial enough but left the folk hero of the kilohertz unmoved. As Limbaugh...
...agrees with the Speaker that no idea has played a more central role in American civilization than progress. It was a combination of patriotism and technological innovation that was instilled in Eisenach as a child. In the first grade, he and his classmates in Mrs. Bumstead's class in Dayton, Ohio, would regularly hear B- 52s flying overhead, heading back to nearby Wright-Patterson Air Base. Each time, the kids' response was the same. ``We would stop whatever we were doing in class and clap...
...were unhappy with his progress and urged Newt Gingrich & Co. to try something different. ``When you have a wholesale change of government during a period of peace and prosperity, that means the populace thinks something is really wrong,'' says James Newby, who retired this month as police chief of Dayton, Ohio. But there is another revolution, one that is happening in homes and neighborhoods and statehouses. Disgusted with American institutions ranging from the post office to the press, citizens are responding not just with anger and cynicism but with increased resourcefulness as well...