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...Tobacco. In the tobacco companies, Congress has found a group that is even more demonized than itself. In its zeal to capitalize on this unusual advantage, our elected representatives have proposed a harsher version of the deal struck last summer between the companies and numerous states to reduce teenage smoking. In response, the tobacco bosses have threatened to pull out of the negotiations with Congress and plead their case before the public. The O. J.-like contortions needed to convince us that these merchants of death are deserving of our sympathy will be so absurd that it'll be hard...
WASHINGTON: First RJR sends out word that it wants out of the proposed tobacco deal; then the industry's No. 2 player hastily denies it. But as John McCain's settlement bill in the Senate gets harsher and harsher, the signal was clear: Big Tobacco is thinking about a fight...
...windmill to tilt at: Getting the long-stalled tobacco deal signed into law. An early draft summary of the bill reveals that McCain's Senate Commerce Committee, needing to please Democrats, Republicans, the White House and C. Everett Koop all at once, has come up with a far harsher version of the agreement that Michael Moore and the state Attorneys General hammered out with Big Tobacco in June...
This wedding, on a dark day of a troubled, distracted and most uncertain time, carried over six continents and seven seas a brightness so simple it was hard to understand. Its appeal was too nearly universal to be explained by such words as "glamor," "publicity," "sentimentality," or even by harsher and more present words, such as "power" or "wealth." Of the millions who spoke and wrote of it, perhaps a London linotyper came closest to saying what it meant...
...relatively mild condemnation ? yet Ritter's words, surprisingly, were harsher than William Cohen's. Speaking from Malaysia, the Defense Secretary would only say the U.S. would continue to pursue "diplomatic initiatives." President Clinton delivered a mere slap on the wrist with his plea to Saddam to stop trying to "pick and choose" inspection teams. But while Ritter continues to be locked out ? and while his face continues to be plastered over prime time ? Clinton's constituency may soon be calling for tougher talking...