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...federal government made a last-ditch attempt to save the deal. Mulroney's chief constitutional negotiator, Senator Lowell Murray, announced that the government would ask the Supreme Court to extend the June 23 deadline, thus giving Manitoba time to complete its ratification. The maneuver had the opposite result. The premier of the other dissenting province, Newfoundland's Clyde Wells, complaining bitterly of the "fabricated precipice" of the June 23 deadline, then called off his own legislature's vote. Murray announced an hour later that the accord had expired...
...blind lead the blind? Shall they not both fall into the ditch? Martin Wishnatsky...
...House, a bipartisan task force that tried to resolve the impasse came up empty after months of negotiations. Speaker Tom Foley and Republican leader Bob Michel last week made a last-ditch effort to achieve a compromise. Predictably, it failed. Now a bipartisan bill making such cosmetic changes as providing discounted rates for television commercials will probably pass. It will do almost nothing to curb the abuses...
...Crimson fought back fiercely from the deep ditch of defeat. Looking into the precipice, the Crimson's Albert Chang bumped off the Anteaters' Mike Roberts at fourth singles to shatter a personal three-game slide and notch the Crimson's first point...
...last-ditch effort to budge Shamir, Washington embarked on a high- profile game, threatening Jerusalem with both diplomatic and financial pressure. When President Bush condemned the settling of Jews in Israeli- annexed East Jerusalem -- a long-standing if rarely stated U.S. policy -- Shamir pounced. "Voices in Washington have outraged every Jew," he said. "We have no obligation to blindly follow every move the U.S. makes." The Bush Administration resented Shamir's efforts to shift the blame for his downfall. "This business that the President is precipitating this is nonsense," said a senior official in Washington...