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...planned and was scheduled, then delayed, at least once, two days beforehand. In the West Bank and Gaza Strip, concern rose that Islamic militants would take revenge not only on Israel but also on its partner in peacemaking, the Palestinian Authority headed by Yasser Arafat. An Islamic backlash could hamper the smooth running of the first Palestinian general elections, scheduled...
...biggest concern for most junior faculty members, though, is that assuming a senior tutorship would hamper their chances of getting tenure...
...smoke-free pledge. So far, more than 25,000 children have signed up. The state has also spent $14 million on antismoking ads. Since 1994, cigarette sales to teens in the state have dropped some 40%. Said Dr. Lonnie Bristow, president of the American Medical Association: "If you hamper their ability to market effectively to children, you've really put your hand on [the tobacco companies'] jugular...
There were dueling Whitewater hearings on Capitol Hill. Federal bank investigator L. Jean Lewis told a House panel that government higher-ups engaged in a "concerted effort to obstruct, hamper and manipulate" her investigation of alleged wrongdoing at the S&L that is at the heart of the Whitewater case. At the Senate hearings, former White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum adamantly told skeptical Senators that his controversial search of the late Vincent Foster's files was but one of the many "right calls" he made to protect legitimate confidences and was not a Whitewater cover...
...after another angrily protested the proceedings today, three federal regulators charged that top government officials repeatedly thwarted their attempts to investigate the failed savings and loan owned by the Clintons' Whitewater business partner. Resolution Trust Corp. investigator Jean Lewis said she believed "there was a concerted effort to obstruct, hamper and manipulate the results of our investigation."TIME's Suneel Ratannotes that despite "the televised pandemonium, the real impact of the hearings so far is in the thousands of documents Leach is dropping on the assembled press corps." In one of the documents, Hillary Clinton says: "If Reaganomics works...