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Clinton got a start -- very, very late -- toward making the case for invasion in his TV address to the nation last Thursday night. He reworked a draft so heavily and so late that by 6 p.m., three hours before airtime, the White House was able to release only excerpts for quotation on the night's TV news shows; aides joked that Clinton was locked into those sentences but that everything else was up in the air. When the cameras finally started rolling in the Oval Office, however, the President was in good form, speaking calmly and firmly, as befits...
...meeting in Cairo, formally known as the International Conference on Population and Development, ended in surprising peace and harmony, even though it had opened amid fierce disputes about abortion and threats of violence by Islamic fundamentalists. For once the U.N. was truly united: no country voted against the final draft of a 113-page plan calling on governments to commit $17 billion annually by the year 2000 to the cause of curbing population growth...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.--When USAir Flight 1016 flew into a down-draft during a thunderstorm, it felt as though "you were suspended from a string and somebody dropped you," a pilot testified yesterday...
...stubborn group of senators labored to produce a health-care reform bill before Election Day, but it looks as if the rest of the Senate thinks it will be stillborn. The "mainstream coalition" led by Sen. John Chafee today huddled with Senate leaders on how to draft a bill that could get a filibuster-proof 60 votes. But in nearby chambers, Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., pronounced the effort dead. Key Democrats weren't much jollier: Senate Finance Committee chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., has said the Chafee bill would harm Medicare and Medicaid...
...favorite poem you'd like to share with friends online? Beware: you could get your service provider busted. A draft version of proposed legislation makes bulletin boards responsible for copyright infringements on their piece of the Net. Needless to say, companies like American Online and CompuServe aren't exactly pleased with the idea. It's like making "the highway responsible for the reckless drivers that use it," protests Kent Stuckey, general counsel of CompuServe. On the other side: copyright holders like music publishers and publications. Bulletin boards "are profiting" from the work of artists, says Susan Mann, attorney...