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...will try to prosecute him regardless. Germany really can't afford to do anything else; it is German policy to put as many Nazi war criminals as possible on trial." so far. The 1,600 relay team, meanwhile, will have to make do without Michael Johnson. Jon Drummond, Tim Harden, Tim Montgomery and Dennis Mitchell cruised to an easy win in their heat, finishing in 38.58. Canada, the only team capable of challenging the U.S., almost was disqualified when it appeared that anchor Donovan Bailey took the handoff from Bruny Smith out of the exchange zone. Despite a yellow flag...
...women were getting elected. Her idea was simple: recruit, train and endorse pro-choice Democratic women candidates, then get women around the country to give them money and votes. EMILY holds seminars for candidates, campaign managers and press secretaries --grueling,16-hour-a-day simulations that battle-harden the players--and bundles small contributions to enormous effect. emily's 40,000 members have helped elect five women Senators and 34 women Representatives. The $8.2 million that members contributed to candidates in 1994 made EMILY the year's biggest Democratic giver--and its president a major force...
...Administration officials charged with the delicate task of reviewing the Federal Government's affirmative-action efforts have determined that most programs are O.K. According to the paper, officials have concluded that employment and education preferences based on race or sex are justified so long as the preferences don't harden into quotas. The exception: "set-aside'' programs guaranteeing work contracts to minority- and women-owned companies that the Administration thinks are discriminatory toward white males. The White House would say only that any final conclusions are weeks away...
...move left Bill Clinton fumbling for an effective retort just when he had adopted stern new measures himself. He had persuaded the United Nations to harden sanctions against Haiti's outlaw regime. He had announced a new asylum policy that would end the unpopular practice of forcibly repatriating Haitian refugees without a hearing. He had appointed William Gray III, head of the United Negro College Fund, as Washington's new Haiti czar. Now he dangled threats of a military invasion of the island nation...
...army to do it. Although Western leaders are relieved that the armed forces came down on the more enlightened side of Moscow's political divide, they must face the disconcerting fact that the generals have earned themselves a place of power in Kremlin policymaking. Already positions have started to harden. Echoes of old, Soviet-sounding themes are being heard beneath the lighter melodies of democracy and reform. As of old, there is an attitude of suspicion toward the West and a hint of reluctance to stick to arms-reduction goals...