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...impassioned speech last night at the Institute of Politics, Gerry Adams--the president of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA)--called for immediate negotiations to unite the two halves of Ireland as an independent nation...
...Adams said London is stioll resorting to tactical maneuvers to avoid negotiating with the IRA in peacetime...
...helpful reform he can get, as does a shrinking band of moderate Republicans led by Rhode Island Senator John Chafee. Ted Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat, is one of the diehards. He told TIME, "I've never thought the best should be the enemy of the good." And Ira Magaziner, chief architect of the now abandoned Clinton plan, is gamely working with Senator Harris Wofford of Pennsylvania and other Senate liberals on a "Kids First" plan to extend insurance to children who now lack it. All these players are wearing their game faces; they expect the health-care struggle to continue...
...Clinton health- care plan was in trouble from the start, even in the eyes of its designers. In a search for hidden clues about what went wrong, a team of TIME correspondents spent more than 100 hours sifting through 250 boxes of papers, memos and other documents created by Ira Magaziner's secretive health-care working group. Some highlights...
...Boorstin, the task-force spokesman, urged colleagues to use plain language when explaining the plan. "The public cares less about the mechanics of ((health-care reform)), and when you talk to them, they want to know in English what will happen to them. Talk to them less like Ira," Boorstin advised, "and more like Roseanne...