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...hand, the law's mandate requiring universal access to public buildings, transit systems and communications networks has made a once daunting world more navigable. Curb ramps, lift-equipped buses and extrawide rest-room stalls for wheelchair users are now as common a feature of the American landscape as are closed-captioned TV titles. A phone relay system called Text Telephone enables the deaf to order pizza. "There's a guy in Georgia who has a job for the first time because his bus has a lift, and a woman in Kentucky who's seen her brother play baseball...
...Bosnian arms embargo, President Clinton declared the U.N. move "the last chance" for the international peacekeeping mission in Bosnia: "You can't go about the world saying you're going to do something and then not do it." If the House follows the Senate with a veto-proof lifting of the ban, Clinton fears the ensuing warfare will trigger a massive U.N. withdrawal requiring escort by 25,000 U.S. troops. TIME's Dean Fischer reports that NATO officials are moving to expand their mandate to attack Serbs if they threaten any remaining safe haven. Clinton, asked today why the Serbs...
Defying President Clinton and the international community, Senate Republicans this evening neared passage of a vote to lift the U.S. arms embargo on Bosnia. The move, approved in the House earlier this year, would be an affront to Clinton and the U.N. Security Council, which imposedthe arms embargoon the former Yugoslavia in 1991, hoping to prevent an escalation ofthe fighting in the Balkans. Senate Majority LeaderBob Dole, who at Clinton's request delayed action last week to await the results of the NATO allies conference in London, argued on the Senate floor that the embargo merely established a built...
Beyond that, Milosevic is reportedly willing to accept a step-by-step suspension of the sanctions against Yugoslavia, with progress dependent on compliance -- a suspend-comply-lift scenario keyed to the gradual implementation of the Bosnia peace plan. In the first phase, strategic materials would stay on the sanctions list, with the exception of an annual quota of allowed oil imports. The time frame for review remains under discussion, with Milosevic insisting on at least a year between compliance assessments. Whatever the interval, the Bildt concepts are said to insist that sanctions will be reimposed should Belgrade evade its commitments...
...movie directors will have to rely on mere sight and sound for their scare effects, and moviegoers will have to make do with spook shows like Species. Films, of course, can still do a thing or two that haunted houses can't: develop elaborate story lines, depict complex emotions, lift the audience by means other than hydraulics. Species, written by Dennis Feldman, does some of that, at least in its first hour. This sci-fi horror opus also has the summer's sexiest High Concept: Alien meets The Fugitive. The escaped monster is on the prowl for a mate...