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Setting the stage for telecommunications talks at next week's G-7 meeting in Brussels, Vice President Al Gore unveiled the U.S. proposal for a global info superhighway. The long-awaited U.S. plan forsees a privately-funded, market-driven "Global Information Infrastructure" with uniform security and access policies. Gore will push for telecommunications reforms to permit competition among telephone and cable television companies and open the network to all firms and individuals, regardless of income. TIME technology editor Philip Elmer-Dewitt says it is ironic that Gore wants other nations to deregulate "before we've gotten our house in order...
When House GOP caucus chair John Boehner of Ohio took the floor with warnings that Clinton's peso rescue plan was "unfortunate," Gingrich -- who happened to be meeting with Vice President Al Gore -- took the mike: "I think it was very unfortunate to have a member of the leadership come out when the vice president is here being very helpful and very cooperative frankly . . . The president had the courage to do what he was being told by very sophisticated experts was vital to reinforce international markets...
While Clinton polished his speech, his top aides were working on little besides the Mexican loan deal. Rubin, Panetta and Vice President Al Gore faced a hostile group of House Democrats Wednesday morning and realized that they had what one called ``a potential tragedy'' on their hands. Fearful that voters back home would resent the public underwriting of private loans to Mexico, lawmakers refused to make what Gore called ``a difficult vote but an easy decision.'' Hearing Gore's insistence that the Treasury might actually make money from the deal, a lawmaker shocked the White House group with his bluntness...
...Shelby, 29, was arrested in Ogden, Utah, as he tried to mail a package containing a bomb to President Clinton, and another with a pistol to cult murderer Charles Manson. Authorities had issued a warrant for Shelby's arrest after he allegedly sent President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore letters on Dec. 7 threatening to kill them. The bomb intended for Clinton contained a light bulb filled with explosives, designed to go off when it was used, The Salt Lake Tribune reported, citing an anonymous police officer.In a second incident, police wrestled down William C. Phillips, also 29, after...
...library was last closed when Vice President Al Gore '69 spoke at the Forum last February, Ebbitt said...