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...this period, becoming a superachiever in school and a drudge at community service. He not only played in the band but also helped its director organize statewide musical events. He was a devoted Boy Scout. His readiness to volunteer was so great that his high school principal called a halt when she felt adults were exploiting him -- as when the local heart fund wanted to make him an officer. "Bill just couldn't say no to these requests," she told Clinton's mother...
...Stronger sanctions against Serbia, however, including a total trade embargo or a freeze of foreign assets, might only encourage Milosevic to hunker down even more. Short of large-scale military intervention, a prospect no one countenances, it appears, sadly, that no force exists with sufficient power and pluck to halt the slaughter...
...result, warnings from abroad turned tougher. The E.C. set April 29 as a deadline for Serbia to halt the fighting. If it did not, it would face "the greatest possible international pressure," a German Foreign Ministry spokesman said in Bonn. "We are leaving open a whole range of options in the political, diplomatic and economic fields." In Washington the State Department denounced the Serbian attacks and also condemned counterattacks by Croatian and Slavic Muslim militias as obstacles to a peaceful solution. "We're calling on everyone to please do whatever they can" to end the shooting, said State's spokeswoman...
...fare structure holds up, it could finally halt the proliferation of discounts in a price-cut-happy industry. "The driving reason for the change is American's desire to get more control over its pricing system than it had when there was a hodgepodge of fares out there," Greenslet says. "American's objective is not to drive TWA out of existence," he asserts. "They can live with TWA operating with a different fare structure, as long as it doesn't declare...
...LEFT IN the world, they are keeping a decidedly low profile. After refusing once again to hand over two suspects in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, Gaddafi discovered just how hard U.N. sanctions could bite. On Wednesday, after the World Court declined Gaddafi's request to halt the sanctions, a ban on commercial flights in and out of Libya went into effect. Cairo and Tunis ordered Libyan planes headed for their countries to turn around, and Rome even dispatched several F-104 jets to intercept a Libyan passenger plane about to enter Italian airspace...