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Promptly at 6 a.m., long before Southern California's chill and brooding morning fog begins to lift, a deputy sheriff unbolts the face-high shutter in the solid steel door of the cell and calls to prisoner 4013970. O.J. Simpson arises and is led across the hall for his daily shower. Returning to his cell, he shaves at the stainless-steel sink. A heated kitchen cart is wheeled down the corridor, and through a slot in the door Simpson is handed a breakfast of scrambled eggs, potatoes, two slices of wheat bread and coffee brewed in a stainless-steel kitchen...
...short of arms?" Stalin asked Kim when he heard about the first / border clashes between North and South in 1950. "We'll give them to you. You must strike the southerners in the teeth." Still, Stalin warned, "if you should get kicked in the teeth, I shall not lift a finger. You have to ask Mao for all the help." Kim went to Beijing, where he convinced Mao that Stalin believed a Korean war was winnable. The Chinese leader allowed himself to be persuaded, and he promised to stand by his new ally. But Kim had miscalculated. The U.S. intervened...
BOSNIAN ARMS EMBARGO: Lingering doubts about the fairness of the U.N.-sponsored -- and U.S.-supported -- arms embargo in the Balkan war prompted the fourth Senate proposal since May to lift the ban on shipments of weapons to the beleaguered Bosnians. Fifty Senators voted for the measure, but the other 50 opposed it, which, in the case of an amendment to a bill, counts as a defeat of the measure. A similar bill passed in the House, 244 to 178, on June...
President Clinton won a victory, though with no room to spare, when the Senate voted 50-50 not to lift the White House -- supported arms embargo against Bosnia. Senate minority leader Bob Dole, backed by most Republicans and some Democrats, went after the Clinton policy in an effort to give the besieged Bosnians more firepower to fend off the better armed Serbs. White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers welcomed the vote as a confirmation of the President's Bosnia stance -- a policy, BTW, that candidate Clinton had railed against. Dole said he'd try it again.parpar
Even in the best of circumstances, the lift-off will not be pretty. Growth will stutter more than roar. And unemployment rates, which will reach an estimated 11.7% this year in the E.U. and 2.8% in Japan, will decline only after the economic recovery has been better established. Herewith, tidings from the various fronts...