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...exhausted nations, Cambodia faces the more dire future. A 19- nation conference convened in Paris to hammer out a settlement between the Cambodian government and the tripartite resistance collapsed in August over the fate of the Khmer Rouge. Hun Sen refused to consider any power-sharing arrangement with the guerrillas who had turned Cambodia into a charnel house, and Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the country's former ruler and the titular head of the resistance, refused to come into a government without them. The combatants and their assorted international sponsors had hoped to reach agreement before the Vietnamese pullout. Now, with...
...President Bush's sweeping anti-drug bill, surprised senators and higher education lobbyists who have fought to keep federal education monies separate from the anti-drug package, a Senate aide said. The aide said opponents hope to water down the alcohol measure before a House-Senate conference meets to hammer out a final drug plan for White House approval in coming weeks...
...children to change the channel again. This was in 1976, and we had three networks plus PBS. I got involved in a pretty good mystery, and all of a sudden the scene changed and one man has another man tied down and is working him over with a hammer. I asked the children to get up and turn the set off. That's all I'd ever been told to do: If you don't like what's on television, turn it off. Then I realized that I'm a part of a whole, larger social group, and what goes...
Despite the deadline, most of the teams did not reach a full agreement yesterday. Although negotiators are not absolutely certain where the negotiations are going now, many say that they understand that the proposals--some completed, some not--have been sent to Rondeau and Dunlop, who will hammer out the final terms...
...Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) and the University hammer out the final details of their first contract, representatives from both sides say that there was never substantial disagreement over the fact that Harvard needs to do more to give its workers affordable child care...