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...legislative plan ready for Clinton to approve for weeks, but they can't get him to focus on it. They have urged that he announce his welfare proposals on June 8 or 9. "But we can't get the White House to tell us when they want to launch it, much less how," says a frustrated official. "Part of the problem is the inability to make a decision...
Reality seems to be hitting all over. The TV trial that Viacom was supposed to launch in Castro Valley, California, next month has been postponed until the end of the year. Ameritech, which had ambitious plans to deliver interactive services to 200,000 homes in the Midwest by year's end, is waiting for government approval. US West says it is still set to bring video to 60,000 telephone customers in Omaha, Nebraska, by December but admits that "some of the more speculative video services" may have to wait...
Babbitt--who was in the news yesterday as one of the leading candidates for nomination to the Supreme Court--and Stephanopoulos visited Harvard as part of AmeriCorps National Service Campus Tour '94, a preview to this fall's launch of AmeriCorps. The corps allows college-age students to participate in full-time community service in exchange for funds to finance tuition or pay back student loans...
...Wayne Huizenga, Blockbuster chairman and Viacom ally in the Paramount takeover war. Now backpedaling from merger with Viacom. Has announced plans for a Florida sports-and-entertainment complex to rival Disney World; now Disney may launch a friendly takeover bid for Blockbuster. Wants to rechristen Miami's Joe Robbie Stadium, which he owns 50% of, Blockbuster Stadium. The Robbie family is resisting...
...watch. Then an astonishing thing occurred. Two of the most venerable forces in Washington -- the Pentagon and the Senate Armed Services Committee -- were confronted by one of the newest: seven women Senators. And for a moment the militarists were forced to regroup. Kelso's supporters had to launch a sudden offensive to squeeze out a 54-43 victory. By saying, "Not so fast," and impeding the old-boy network, the women, and the 36 men who joined them, rallied around that rarely observed principle: accountability. Still, they lost...