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...leader Gerry Adams, visiting the White House along with Irish Prime Minister John Bruton tonight, insisted that the political wing of the Catholic Irish Republican Army lacks the authority to act on Clinton's request. Bruton disagreed. He told reporters that Adams "has tremendous influence" over the anti-British IRA. Bruton and Adams praised Clinton for opening the White House gates for Sinn Fein, a controversial move they hope will accelerate peace talks. TIME White House correspondent James Carney says Protestant politicians from Northern Ireland also were invited to the White House tonight. Although the reception is "purely ceremonial," Carney...
Fall 1993: Crimson President Ira E. Stoll is censured by his own executive board for inappropriate conduct. By any standard, the president of a large student organization being reprimanded by his own board is newsworthy...
...leader of the political arm of the Irish Republican Army. Adams did not meet Clinton when he came to the U.S. last December. McCurry said the President personally decided to grant Adams a three-month visa this time becauseSinn Feinis open to talks on disposing of all IRA weapons...
...Newsweek's Saturday deadline ticked away, finally a bargain was struck. Harvard agreed to let Newsweek photographer Ira Wyman take pictures of post-Caribbean Rudenstine at the President's Dance for first-years...
...Ira Stark, a retired cabbie, has a smoking habit that cost taxpayers more than $20,000 last year, and this year the meter is still running. The 53-year-old Miami resident smoked three packs a day for almost four decades; now he has emphysema and needs bottled oxygen to breathe. Medicaid-i.e., taxpayers-foots the bill for his respiratory problems ($400 a month for oxygen, $18,000 for a nine-day hospital stay last year). Despite the tab he's already rung up, Stark still puffs his way through half a pack a day: "I just have this...