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...wore a beaded Navajo tie. Democrats suggested Campbell should quit the Senate and submit himself to a special election to find out how voters feel about his switch. TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty said Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle's staff was surprised by Campbell's decision, but "they insist there are no other potential switchers out there...
...city's success at winning a disproportionately large share of federal funding may prove to hurt the city, as Republicans in Congress insist on a balanced federal budget...
...communique, supposedly from Marcos, that said the Zapatistas were willing to negotiate, ``but it is necessary that the government takes out its troops first.'' Government officials, relying on information from a defector known as Subcomandante Daniel, who is being held in a maximum-security prison near Mexico City, insist that the movement is made up of a mere 130 ``professionals'' and 500 militiamen and is being torn by dissension over Marcos' allegedly authoritarian ways. If encircled and forced to hide in the jungle long enough, military planners think, disheartened Zapatistas will give up and negotiate. Maybe, but at week...
...volunteers insist they are not there to upstage the teachers...
Cuban Americans and conservative politicians in Washington insist that keeping the trade embargo firmly in place will hasten Castro's demise. But this line of thinking ignores the bedrock of loyalty that many ordinary Cubans feel for Castro, whose revolution has provided every adult citizen with free health care, education and a social-welfare net. Castro has long profited by laying the blame for Cuba's economic troubles on the U.S. Resentment of the embargo--particularly when U.S. sanctions against Vietnam have been lifted--only reinforces a fierce pride. Cubans are nationalists even more than they are socialists or incipient...