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...DIED. LEON DAY, 78, baseball player; in Baltimore, Maryland. Day was a pitching star in the Negro National League in the 1930s and '40s, known for striking out 18 players in a game. A week before his death, Day was inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame...
...vote to slice $17 billion from federal programs, ranging from public housing to public broadcasting, then pushed $100 billion more in reductions through a divided budget committee as a way of funding tax cuts. Calling today's cuts "irresponsible and mean-spirited," White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta immediately promised that President Clinton would veto the legislation. The $100 million package, expected to pass the House by month's end, would help fund $190 billion in tax cuts over five years, most of them for a $500 per child tax credit for families earning under $200,000. But TIME...
...community college in San Bernardino, California, he sat around a table with a dozen local residents for a closed-door discussion of his education policies and Republican plans to "cut and gut" important programs. He emerged after an hour radiating enthusiasm. Turning to his chief of staff, Leon Panetta, Clinton said, "If you let me do that every time we go out on the road, you'll have a happy President." More than that, he said, "I also think we might do ourselves some good...
Like his princely predecessors, Carlos Salinas de Gortari was accustomed to the sycophantic treatment accorded Presidents--and former Presidents--of Mexico. So it must have come as a shock when a visitor sent ``as a courtesy'' by current President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon showed up unannounced at Salinas' Mexico City house last Tuesday morning and began ringing the front doorbell. The high-level official, laden with documents, tapes and videos, was bringing evidence that a dramatic new lead had surfaced in the investigation into the murder of one of Mexico's most powerful politicians, Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu...
...School Lecturer A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., afriend of Guinier and public service professor ofjurisprudence at the Kennedy School of Government,said he did not know of Guinier's future plans...