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...Fourteen bills were passed last night as the council attempted to resolve last-minute business before the end of the year...
Defense and foreign ministers from the NATO member nations have officially approved the peacekeeping mission in Bosnia. Fourteen nonmember nations also pledged their support and said they would join in the peacekeeping operation. Chief among these: Russia, whose participation the Clinton Administration had deemed crucial. French Defense Minister Charles Millon gave the mission a boost when he attended the meeting, ending a 29-year French boycott of NATO's military wing. The contributor of 10,000 of the 60,000 peacekeepers, France has a major stake in the largest troop deployment in NATO history. TIME's Bruce Crumley notes that...
However, administrators are worrying because the report revealed great disparity between Cambridge's fourteen elementary schools in test scores, discipline and racial and economic representation...
...that an "immense effort" will be required to implement the accord. That sentiment was echoed by Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, who spearheaded the team which brought the parties to the negotiating table and who had not spoken publicly since the negotiations began on November 1. "We started fourteen weeks ago. It seemed like 14 years ago," said Holbrooke. The veteran diplomat admitted that the enmities among the parties were "still raw." "We have taken a huge step forward," said Holbrooke, "but ahead lies an equally daunting task...
There are 17 million acres of national forest lands in Montana. Last year Burns introduced a wilderness-protection bill for his state that called for safeguarding 800,000 acres and easing commercial activity restrictions on 5 million acres. Fourteen energy companies worked to win exclusion of a key part of this acreage, a 100-mile-long strip of remote terrain in northwestern Montana, known as the Rocky Mountain Front, that could allow them to stake drilling claims. "The matchup was exact. His big campaign contributors got precisely the acreage that they wanted,'' insists John Gatchell, conservation director of the Montana...