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...good. Several important foes of gun control, including Les AuCoin (R--Oregon), rallying to its support. Even the White House, with lifetime NRA member George Bush at the helm, is said to be rejoicing at the opportunity to support the bill, under the cover of Reagan and within the framework of Bush's own crime bill...
...narrative is direct, and Cary's initial two years at the School serve as the story's framework. But Cary's book is unabashedly about herself. As she says, "St. Paul's is the setting. It's the place, not the main character." Her return to the school does not directly illuminate the nature of St. Paul's. Instead, Cary highlights her late acceptance of her painful, and previously unacknowledged, rite of passage...
...plan that holds the greatest potential for peace is direct bilateral talks between Arab states and Israel. This framework led to the only Arab-Israeli peace that has been achieved in the Middle East--the Camp David Accords of 1978, which produced a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel that still stands today...
...T.F.A.P. has not fulfilled the most dire predictions of environmentalists, but only because very little of the $8 billion intended for the Third World has actually been spent. Moreover, the plan has not been all bad. It offered a framework that brought rich nations together with Third World countries to begin dealing with tropical deforestation. "There are benefits to having global, one-stop shopping for the basic principles of forestry lending," says Barnes of Friends of the Earth...
Timed to coincide with this week's Senate Commerce Committee hearings on proposals to extend government control over the cable industry, the letter bitterly criticized signal quality, response to service requests and "dramatic" rate increases. "Under the current statutory framework, we lack the authority to address many of these complaints," said the signers, led by Mayors Sharpe James of Newark, Maynard Jackson of Atlanta and Raymond Flynn of Boston...