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...power, and as a result seemed to create an opportunity for peace. The White House is now attempting to seize that opportunity by presenting a new plan for the Balkans. For Bill Clinton, the risks are high: "If we come back with a diluted plan, or if we fail to win acceptance of it, the President is going to look totally incompetent," says an Administration official. For the people in the region, the risks are even higher: as a senior U.S. military source in Europe puts it, "A slight miscalculation on anybody's part, and we face a general Balkan...
...next seven years. When Gingrich talks about the fight ahead, he seems almost giddy. "I have every confidence that if we get up every morning focusing on Medicare and we stay on top of this issue, we'll do fine," he says. "My only fear is that we will fail to do that, and we'll get blindsided. If we back off on any of it, we'll fall apart...
Russian President Boris Yeltsinsays negotiations are under way to bring Milosevic and Tudjman to the bargaining table. The Russian government has long pushed the West to find a diplomatic solution to the Balkan conflict, but Yeltsin today indicated for the first time that force might be necessary if negotiations fail...
...violence they see on the screen, they should lobby for this violence to be removed from the networks entirely, so all viewers may expect certain standards of decency, whatever they may be determined to be. Or, recognizing that television is a business like any other, they should fail to patronize the advertisers who support "objectionable" shows...
Even if reform legislation were to fail, telecommunications companies would find ways of invading one another's turf--although the lack of congressional assistance would sharply slow the process. Laws permitting some competition in local phone service are already on the books in eight states, including New York, Illinois and Washington; 18 others are drafting measures to encourage more firms to enter the field. Under current provisions, Time Warner has begun to offer packages of cable-TV and local phone service in Rochester, New York; the company intends to provide similar plans to most of its 11.5 million U.S. cable...