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...independent presidential possibilities whose names provoke excited speculation and furious whispers include notables such as General Colin L. Powell and Senator Bill Bradley. But Lowell Weicker? Wasn't he that really dumb guy on "Wings...
...morning that both sides finally rested, O.J. Simpson provided all the fireworks with a brief courtroom speech outside the presence of jurors: "They will find as the record stands now, that I did not, could not and would not have committed this crime." The speech stunned a furious Marcia Clark, who just minutes before had requested that Simpson not be allowed to make a statement if he would not testify. James Willwerth reports from the trial that Simpson's statement took everyone in the courtroom by surprise. "Ito did not intend to let him make a statement. He simply asked...
Welfare as America has known it since the Depression is just about dead and buried. The end game began in the Senate on Saturday, and the debate is already furious. Some of the proposed bill's prescriptions, such as requiring teen mothers on welfare to live at home or attend school, are long overdue. And Bob Dole has cleverly worked to smooth the harshest provisions of the House legislation. The drive to cut funds to moms who have more kids while on welfare, for example, would be left for the states as an option rather than mandated by Washington. That...
...Empire as a buffer against the Turks. "These guys were the eternal defense." On Saturday night, however, the situation took an unexpected twist when word arrived that the entire Krajina Serb army seemed to have vanished. While Serb resistance could simply have scattered in the face of the Croats' furious advance, the mystery of the Krajina army's disappearance immediately provoked suspicions that the Croatian Serbs may have been headed en masse for Bosnia with the intention of linking up with Radovan Karadzic, self-styled leader of the Bosnian Serbs. Barely 24 hours earlier, Karadzic had added to his portfolio...
...still come crashing down. It teetered last week when AT&T, Sprint, MCI and nearly 500 other long-distance carriers bitterly challenged the provisions, added late in the game, that would permit the Baby Bells to jump into long-distance service before substantial competition arrived on the local level. Furious representatives of the long-distance industry swung from supporting the House bill to actively lobbying against it. On Friday a group of small long-distance carriers held a news conference with consumer groups to attack the bill. (Disagreements over the Bells' entry into long distance sank a similar measure last...