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Specter seeks to return Republicans to the party of Lincoln in its support of both reproductive and religious freedom. Under Specter, the wall between church and state would remain solid. His promise to halt the spread of religious indoctrination has not been made by any other candidate, including President Clinton, who supports a moment of silence in public schools...
...allied unity and shake the new cooperation between NATO and the U.N., and might also precipitate a split with Russia, which is a member of the Contact Group. In Moscow last week, a fit-looking President Boris Yeltsin demanded, "Why are only the Serbs punished?" He warned NATO to halt the air strikes or see Europe again divided into "two camps." American officials assumed most of Yeltsin's protest was for domestic consumption, but they took care to seat Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov prominently at the negotiating table in Geneva...
...happened on the sixth day out as we were coming down a steep hillside. I was a quarter of the way back in the column, the customary place for advisers. As usual, we were moving in single file, which meant that the V.C. could halt the entire column by picking off the first man. I had urged Hieu to break the battalion into three or four parallel columns, but the forest was so dense and the passes so narrow in places that Hieu let this bit of American wisdom go politely unheeded...
When June arrives, Harvard's classes come to an abrupt halt while students scatter to the four winds. Although the academic action ceases, at least for a little bit, Harvard athletes continue to challenge competitors in the United States and beyond...
Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott headed to Moscow to try to calm Russian anger over the NATO raids as Boris Yeltsin intensified his opposition. Yeltsin's government today branded the bombing runs "genocide" against the Serbs. Yesterday, Moscow called upon the Security Council to halt the raids. Sally Donnelly reports from Moscow that Yeltsin is playing to the home team, talking tough as Russian parliamentary election campaigns proceed. "The Russians are suffering from 'former superpower angst'," Donnelly says. "If the U.S. had become a lesser power, and Russia and Europe were ignoring the U.S. and intervening in a place...