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Guerrilla leaders meeting in Peshawar, Pakistan, suggested a compromise. They proposed an interim council, with representatives from each of the 10 major guerrilla groups, to govern Afghanistan until elections could be held within a year. They instructed Massoud to take charge in Kabul until their arrival. The U.N. envoy to Afghanistan, Benon Sevan, asked all factions to set aside their differences and cooperate, but he was less than optimistic. "What they agree to in the morning," he said, "they reject in the evening as if it were signed in invisible ink." Hekmatyar talked with Massoud for two hours by radio...
...Whitewater Development Co., a corporation that planned to sell lots for vacation homes. They maintained their investment even after 1982, when Jim McDougal, head of Whitewater, became majority owner of the now defunct Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan, which was regulated by the state Clinton shortly was elected to govern. (After winning his first two-year gubernatorial term in 1978, Clinton lost his 1980 bid.) The other is that Hillary was a partner in the Rose Law Firm, which represented clients before the state government that her husband headed. Clinton has replied that he and Hillary never made any money...
What kind of Governor has Bill Clinton been? That critical question has often been lost in the frenzy of inquiries about his character, inquiries that frequently produce the next day's tabloid headline but say little if anything about his ability to govern. After running Arkansas for 11 years, Clinton has amassed a rich record that deserves at least as much discussion among voters as anything else in his life...
...govern quietly, and she did not go quietly. Sharp-tongued Prime Minister Edith Cresson, 58, drew fire while in office for having called the Japanese "ants" and saying that one-quarter of Anglo-Saxon men are homosexuals. In her letter of resignation, she complained that she had not been allowed to "fully complete" her mission...
...pain or past suffering, lead me to condescending conclusions about the views or intent of other individuals or groups, I'm only doubling the stereotyping I claim to be fighting. If, as a person very upset by anti-Arab remarks, I respond to a peer's assertion that Egyptians govern their society stupidly by calling her a racist, stalking off and writing an angry letter to The Crimson, I'm not giving her a chance to talk the issue out with...