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TheWindows 95 juggernauthas proved too strong for IBM, the last holdout among personal computer manufacturers. After swearing that it would stand by its flailing OS/2 computer operating system, IBM announced that it would include the new Microsoft operating system with some of its PCs. "It took IBM a while, but it was almost inevitable that they would eventually offer Windows 95, too,"TIME's David Jacksonreports from Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, where IBM executives attended a launch party for the software. "Any personal computer maker not offering this product is going to have a tough time, at least...
While lawmakers in Washington were debating the wisdom of adding new amendments to the Constitution, lawmakers in Mississippi finally got around to ratifying the nation's 13th--the one abolishing slavery--130 years after the fact. Mississippi remained the lone holdout until a black state senator raised the point...
...move by young G.O.P. conservatives to dump Oregon's Mark Hatfield from the chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations Committee fizzled in a closed-door party caucus. The conservatives were angry at Hatfield, who voted against the balanced-budget amendment--the lone Republican holdout...
...round of desperate wheeling, dealing and politicking over Social Security--the perennial political hot potato--the Senate failed to pass a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. The Republican leadership came up one vote shy of the two-thirds majority required when they failed to persuade the one Republican holdout, Oregon's Mark Hatfield, or either of North Dakota's two Democratic Senators to switch sides. The Democratic leadership had little time to celebrate its victory, however; the day after the vote, Colorado Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, a longtime supporter of the amendment, announced he was switching his party affiliation...
Remember Syria? Secretary of State Warren Christopher said today that he'll return to Damascus in early March to press the last peace holdout to revive its talks with Israel. Also on the agenda are stops in Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Gaza, where Christopher will huddle with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat...