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President Clinton, who only months ago had rushed to accommodate Republican plans to repeal federal affirmative-action programs, now suddenly seems ready to turn and fight. On the eve of what the White House has billed as a defining presidential speech on the issue, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Deval Patrick announced that Clinton would not "be intimidated" by aSupreme Court rulingthat jeopardizes programs that award federal contracts to minority businesses. "The Administration, through the president's speech, is making clear that we favoraffirmative actionwithout hype, without fear and without apology," Patrick said during a minority business summit...
Figuring outNorth Korea's leadershipcould make even a Kremlinologist's head spin, but it looks as though Kim Jong Il -- son of the late PresidentKim Il Sung-- may finally be running the show. Today, on the eve of the anniversary of elder Kim's death, North Korean television showed the younger Kim seated at a dais with other dignitaries as a military band played a patriotic song. "The revolutionary cause pioneered by President Kim Il Sung is now being successfully carried forward under the wise guidance of the great leader, Comrade Kim Jong Il," Yang Hyong Sop, North Korea...
Stocks advanced during a shortened trading session on the eve of the Fourth of July holiday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 29.05 points, finishing at 4585.15 when the market closed at 1pm. Just 117.14 million shares were traded, compared with 311.37 million last Friday. Standard & Poor's 500 stock index advanced 2.34 to 547.09, while the New York Stock Exchange composite index climbed 1.15 to 292.99 and Standard & Poor's 500 list advanced 2.34 to 547.09. Gainers outnumbered losers by about 4 to 3 on the NYSE. The Nasdaq composite rose 1.08 to 934.53. At the American Stock Exchange...
...large, the Colombian government crowed over Gilberto's arrest. "This is the beginning of the end of the Cali cartel," announced President Ernesto Samper Pizano. A press conference at police headquarters in Bogota, where Rodriguez was paraded about like war booty, had the air of a New Year's Eve party, with confetti and streamers floating through the air. "Rodr?guez was arrested in his stronghold," says a pleased DEA official. "It shows that the Colombian government is serious about this...
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