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...House cliff-hanger was the prelude to another in the Senate. Early on Friday the Administration found itself still shy of a victory by just one vote, the holdout being Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, known among his colleagues as "Cosmic Bob" for his epic bouts of indecision. What struck White House officials most about Kerrey's resistance was what a senior Administration official described as the "inchoate" nature of his demands. Kerrey wasn't asking for anything specific. He didn't want a post office in Omaha or a dam on the Platte River. Instead he was advocating a more...
...debut slated this week of NATO warplanes to enforce what so far has been a meaningless ban on military flights above Bosnian territory, there remains scant international consensus to punish Serbia for refusing to recognize a peace plan in its neighbor's year-old civil war. One increasingly vocal holdout at the U.N.: Russia, which historically has maintained close ties to Serbia...
...American negotiators -- fearful that the proposed agreements could hurt U.S. economic interests -- insisted that the treaty to combat climate change be weakened, and the White House is refusing to sign the pact to protect endangered plants and animals. But most other nations came ready for action. India, often a holdout in environmental negotiations, agreed to the climate-change treaty, and three countries -- Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands -- pushed for tougher curbs on the gases that may cause global warming...
With Cuba an increasingly lonely holdout against the stampede away from communism, what better time for the anti-Castro RADIO MARTI to turn up the volume and hasten Fidel's political demise? Instead, a recent U.S. Information Agency study shows a shrinking audience. Radio Marti employees blame their director, Rolando Bonachea, for the defections. Bonachea has tried to "professionalize" the station's programming by increasing its anticommunist rhetoric. Castro's stations, by contrast, have won listeners back by giving them what they want: rock 'n' roll...
...idea that would revolutionize biology flashed into the mind of a hippie- holdout biochemist during a midnight drive in 1983. While winding through the mountains of Northern California, Kary Mullis envisioned a way of easily copying a single fragment of DNA in a chain reaction that so surprised him, he pulled his Honda Civic off the road to admire the view in his mind...