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After making education funding a major part of his winning platform in November, President Clinton hopes to enact two major college aid proposals during the first session of the 105th Congress...
...West Virginia, where one-third of all homicides are domestic, that change has been slow to come. In 1994 it became the last state in the nation to enact a "probable cause" provision permitting police officers to arrest batterers on the spot, even when the victim refuses to press charges--a law that domestic-violence advocates consider essential. The state's rural nature makes it hard to get services to the women who need them. And though the laws and access to the court system are now up to, or even ahead of, those in other states, even some...
...charges against their straight male comrades-in-arms who can't keep their hands to themselves, let alone act like professional soldiers. This "do kiss, do tell" situation threatens order and cohesion in the ranks! I urge you, President Clinton, don't take any chances as regards military effectiveness. Enact a policy barring all heterosexual men from the military, and allow only women and gays to serve. RICH WILSON Houston...
...proceedings, the council suddenly decided to close the meeting and continued on to speak against Miller in private. But Miller expects another open meeting to be scheduled in the near future and says the council, which could pass the ordinance now, will probably wait until after that meeting to enact the regulations...
...saying over and over again: I heard you, I listened; walk, don't run; cooperate, don't confront. There was a reason Clinton hardly ever mentioned his opponent from Kansas and even less often the Democratic Party: he was running against Gingrich, not Dole, as the better man to enact a Republican agenda...