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...evening--the Speaker's 54th birthday, as it happened--about 35 Republicans, largely drawn from the Gingrich- inspired Class of '94, met in Armey's suite, ostensibly to talk about upcoming legislation. But their session opened instead with outbursts against Gingrich, some even asserting that it was time to dump him. For the first time, a participant recalled, Gingrich's fellow Republicans were saying they no longer could trust...
...chief executive John Garrison. As the industry hastens to reach a settlement, pressure to curb and punish its practices continues to mount: on Wednesday, even as the FTC charged R.J. Reynolds with unfair advertising practices, charging that its Joe Camel campaign targets children, the state of Florida decided to dump $825 million worth of tobacco stocks invested in its retirement plan. In July, the first class-action suit against the industry is set to begin in Mississippi...
TRICO The manufacturer moved its windshield-wiper operation from Buffalo, N.Y., where it laid off more than 1,000 workers, to Matamoros. In a 1994 deposition, the plant manager said the hazardous waste was shipped back to the U.S., but the plaintiffs' investigators found one Matamoros dump littered with charred windshield wipers, evidence that discarded products were burned, potentially releasing hazardous chemicals into...
...American patriots dump tea in Boston Harbor...
...course and held last minute talks with Yasser Arafat. The move came after Arafat refused to meet with Ross out of a growing frustration that the U.S. envoy was not taking an active enough role in talks. Palestinian negotiators have in fact for weeks been pushing President Clinton to dump Ross. "Palestinian officials . . . don't trust him," Arafat spokesman Marwan Kanafani told TIME last week. Palestinians say Ross has not pressed Netanyahu's government hard enough on the issue of new Israeli construction in the West Bank. Although the U.S. has strongly criticized Israeli building projects in the West Bank...