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...cover story ((THE WHITE HOUSE, March 21)) on the travails of Hillary Rodham Clinton unfair? At least 70 readers support her. "Why are you endorsing this witch-hunt?" asks Clara Beard of Los Angeles, who, like many, suspects the furor over Whitewater is "a ploy to divert attention from much needed health-care legislation." Others agree with Huguet Pameijer of Simsbury, Connecticut, who thinks "the current bash fest" stems from the perception that the First Lady is "too accomplished, too powerful, too darn inexcusably uppity." But some 50 readers have harsh words for Hillary. While the milder critics deem...
...carefully at the Muslim-Croat federation. Churkin said he found Milosevic "flexible and constructive." That may be because the Serb leader is feeling the pinch of U.N.-enforced economic sanctions -- more than half the work force is effectively unemployed -- and fearful that Croatia, no longer preoccupied with Bosnia, might divert its armed forces to the Krajina front...
...joint has acres of casino space -- but the slots and blackjack tables are, astoundingly, quite separate from and mostly concealed by the Disneyesque fun and games. The bells and whistles are more prominent and accessible than the casino itself, and are not merely a cute, quick way to divert people as they proceed into the fleecing pen. The MGM Grand has gone further: it spent hundreds of millions of | dollars extra to build an adjacent but entirely separate amusement park, cramming seven rides (three involving fake rivers) and eight "themed areas" onto 33 acres, less than a 10th the size...
...treaty provides for a 15-year adjustment period on sugar imports, but it also allows the Mexicans to export sugar freely after seven years if that nation has a surplus. Sugar-state lawmakers are worried that the Mexicans will substitute corn syrup and other sweeteners for domestic use and divert cane and beet sugar for export, thus creating an artificial surplus. "If it's not fixed," says Louisiana Senator John Breaux, " NAFTA cannot pass in the House. Period...
...program was devised that enabled Leonard to reduce sales data on an item-by-item basis and skim $17 million in cash, mostly during the 1980s. Computer tapes that contained the real financial figures were destroyed, while the company's auditors were given the understated books. In order to divert even more money, Leonard began to require customers buying gift certificates to pay cash...