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ATLANTA: No talks are scheduled and none are planned to break the deadlock in the strike that is crippling UPS. TIME's Jef McAllister says President Clinton, stung by flak he took for intervening in the baseball strike two-and-a-half years back, won't be stepping up to this plate any time soon. It's enough to make you go back to the U.S. Postal Service. First a FedEx jet crashes and burns to a crisp in Newark, leaving all packages on board well done. Now a United Parcel Service walkout has managers handling a small fraction...
...also directed Project 88, a bipartisan endeavor co-chaired by former Sen. Timothy E. Wirth '61 (D-Colo.) and Sen. John Heinz (R-Va.) that worked on developing market-based solutions to environmental problems. That initiative was credited for helping to break a Congressional deadlock in 1990 over the Clean Air Act amendments...
...Clinton Administration to aggressively work with Benjamin Netanyahu on a peace settlement, Arafat told reporters he didn't think Ross would bring any new suggestions to the table. "Naturally, the Palestinians are hoping the Americans will come with a fairly aggressive and dynamic proposal which will break the deadlock," reports TIME's Scot MacLeod. "But since this hasn't happened in the past, they're disillusioned and skeptical. When they see another mission by Clinton's mediator, their reaction is to pour cold water him before the mission gets off the ground. It's a diplomatic way of indirectly complaining...
...vote justified is that Americans by and large do not trust either party enough to give it full control of the government, or of Congress as a whole, or even of one chamber. Far from being disgusted by the prospect of divided government as a breeder of legislative deadlock, not a few Americans rather like the idea--even consider it a logical extension of the constitutional system of checks and balances...
...personality of a hockey game you could ask for--excitement, odd-man rushes, hard hits and nailbiting seconds. Too bad no one could go home satisfied as the Harvard men's hockey team skated to a 2-2 deadlock last night against Yale at Ingalls Rink...