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...government's failure to return all the properties unjustly confiscated by the Sandinistas and to diminish Sandinista influence on policy has also put off some aid donors, most notably the U.S. During the first two years of Chamorro's term, Washington gave nearly $1 billion in grants, loans and forgiven debt. But in July the Senate voted to cut off $94 million in aid, pending the outcome of an ongoing investigation of Nicaraguan army and < intelligence ties to international terrorists. The House will soon decide whether to follow suit...
There is no scientific evidence that an ancient curse has settled over the hallways of NBC News, but staff members at the network's newsmagazine show Dateline could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. After last February's embarrassment of having to apologize -- on air -- for faking a fire in a segment on General Motors truck safety, they endured a public pillorying that led to the resignation of NBC News president Michael Gartner and three Dateline producers. Hope was widespread at the network that the arrival of new president Andrew Lack and a complete review of the show's reportorial methods...
...world's priests, saying "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." As for the sinners among the ranks, many church officials feel they have little choice but to forgive. Says a Vatican official: "We'd all be in a mess if we couldn't be forgiven." However, for the women and children who have suffered, forgiveness is not only not divine, it is certainly not enough...
...long ago, Jeffords was the Republican that the Bush and Reagan White Houses loved to hate. But last week old sins were forgiven. Senate minority leader Robert Dole, sensing he had Clinton cornered for the first time, hurriedly flew to Burlington Wednesday to attend one of Jeffords' quiet, $20- a-head, appetizer-and-Chablis fund raisers that are typical of Vermont's small-town politics. What wasn't typical was that more than a dozen reporters and seven television crews attended too, in the hope of seeing Dole close the deal...
McPhee concluded his project at a good time. Brown's interests are topical, not topological. Even dedicated subscribers to the old New Yorker can be forgiven if their eyes lost traction on McPhee's exotic terrain and skidded to the cartoons. Those who stayed with "Annals" soon learned to appreciate the enterprise. McPhee is a master of expository prose...