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Campaigning proceeded at a furious pace throughout the city yesterday...
...Administration by passing a resolution, 315 to 103, recommending that the President not send American troops to Bosnia, a commitment demanded by the Bosnians, Croats and Serbs as a condition for peace. Special U.S envoy Richard Holbrooke, who has masterminded a temporary peace and orchestrated the Dayton meeting, was furious at the eleventh-hour interference. He told reporters yesterday that it "greviously interferes with the negotiating process of peace. Any member of the Congress who supports that kind of resolution on the eve of an historic and important negotiation is doing grave damage to the national interests...
...first marketed it a few days earlier during a speech in Williamsburg, Virginia, before the Business Roundtable. To get his plan through Congress, he told the corporate chieftains, he had to "raise your taxes more and cut spending less than I wanted to, which made a lot of you furious." He got away with it that time, taking credit for pushing through a brave budget without taking the blame for the very ingredients that made it brave in the first place. But sooner or later, he was bound to be cited for a moving violation. "We missed it," admitted...
...many observers this tactic backfired, making Shipp more sympathetic, rather than less credible. Simpson was furious. From jail, he organized a telephone conference with the Dream Team and announced, "I'll decide who the running backs are in this game!" Says writer-producer Larry Schiller, who co-wrote Simpson's most recent book, I Want to Tell You: "The Shipp thing brought a sense of immediacy to the trial for O.J. The trial was like the Gaud? mosaic in Barcelona. That was the day O.J. truly understood that any little stone out of place could cause him to spend...
However, certain sensitivities still must be catered to. Denver sent letters to every original donor it could locate, advising them or their relatives of the impending sale. A handful were furious at the low prices attached to family heirlooms. Denver art historian Ursula Works discovered that a sculpture by her father, donated in 1929, was being sold. Aghast that it was valued at a mere $300 to $500, she and her husband went to the auction and bought it back--not before fighting off others to the tune of $1,400. "We didn't want to see it used...