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Calling on Americans to "turn from thoughts of...the twilight struggle [of the Cold War] to a new dawn of promise," Gen. Colin L. Powell, chair of the joint chiefs of staff, addressed some 30,000 Harvard faculty members, graduates and their families on Thursday, June 10 at the University's 342nd Commencement ceremony...
...intraparty revolt spread, top House leaders telephoned Clinton and urged him to step back from the budget battle to preserve his leverage for the joint House-Senate conference committee later this summer. It is there, they noted, that the final tax bill will be written; everything until then is mere prelude. Within hours White House officials picked up on the theme. "There's no special magic in the BTU," said a senior official. "What's important is the final product...
...that will allow in-the-closet gays to serve, with some leeway for letting their orientation be known. This would be a more tolerant version of the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy favored by Senator Sam Nunn. Aspin is close to persuading Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to sign on to his proposal, which would almost certainly make the policy acceptable to Nunn and the Congress...
...politics of immigration has created strange alliances and oppositions. Liberal Democrat Eugene McCarthy and Conservative Democrat Richard Lamm favor restricting immigration, as does archconservative Republican Pat Buchanan. Polls by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a black think tank, found that African Americans are far more sympathetic than whites to the plight of Haitian refugees, but also far more worried than whites about competition from immigrants for jobs. In Florida's Dade County, where 60% of the residents are now Spanish-speaking, the county commission voted unanimously to repeal a 1980 ordinance making English the sole language...
...making joint decisions with that minority. They said they would never talk with the A.N.C., and they fought almost every election on that basis. We have made them sit down and talk to us. We are now together planning the future South Africa. They have had to unban the A.N.C., to lift the state of emergency, to allow a climate of free political activity, which they had not allowed for more than 40 years. They have released political prisoners, allowed political exiles to return to the country, amended and even repealed repressive legislation, and agreed on the installation...