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...advent of a new Administration is, quite naturally, a time when many news organizations enact their own changing of the guard in the White House press room. TIME is among those inaugurating a new team, which will be in charge of chronicling the ups and downs of the incoming Clinton Administration. But we are doing so in a way that tries to combine a fresh perspective with historic continuity...
Because of their centralized authority and tradition of social legislation, European nations can enact antismoking laws more easily than the U.S. Nevertheless, the change has come fitfully. Britain was among the first to ban advertising on television, in 1965, and to require health warnings on packs, in 1971. Yet Britons, who loathe anything that smacks of a nanny state, have never progressed beyond polite arm twisting. Neither have the Germans, who provide nonsmoking train cars and smoke-free areas in restaurants but rely more on consensus than legal sanctions...
...Italy legislators tried in 1975 to enact stiff bans in public places. The results have been mixed in a country that rarely takes any good-for-you legislation seriously: while theaters and public transportation are smoke- free, hospitals and schools are not always, and restaurants are decidedly not. Parliament will soon try again to pass a law that will so reduce public smoking areas that Bruno Simoncelli, a two-pack-a-day government filing clerk, frets, "I'll have to go back to smoking in the bathroom the way I did when I first started at 16." Even so, restaurants...
...crucial issue to most Americans. To produce real fiscal change, Clinton's policies will need a considerable amount of time before they bear concrete results. Nonetheless, Clinton, who says he will "focus like a laser beam on this economy," has proposed some immediate changes that he plans to enact quickly in order to jumpstart the economy and bring it out of the current recession...
Oberwetter didn't bite, and his anger over the scheme is igniting old questions about whether -- and how often -- the FBI conducts stings on citizens without probable cause. Congress has repeatedly declined to enact laws against entrapment by government officials, but that could soon change. "We've had a long history of stings but never one with such astonishing political implications," says Don Edwards, the tough chairman of the House Civil and Constitutional Rights Subcommittee, who plans to hold new hearings. The attention couldn't have come at a worse time for the FBI, whose director, William Sessions, is himself...