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WASHINGTON -- France and other U.S. Gulf War allies are eager to win contracts to help rebuild Iraq and want the U.N. to lift sanctions against Baghdad so it can resume exporting oil. But PRESIDENT CLINTON opposes the move -- and not just because Iraq remains a threat. If Iraq starts exporting oil, Administration energy experts warn, the price for crude could fall by nearly half, to $11 per bbl. That would spell trouble for volatile and financially strapped oil exporters such as Russia and Saudi Arabia -- and for 60 oil-patch lawmakers, who begged Clinton for new tax breaks...
...giant soccer ball. Near Detroit, agronomists from Michigan State University have covered the synthetic turf in the Pontiac Silverdome with 1,850 hexagonal chunks of specially grown, soccer-friendly grass. In Palo Alto, California, workers are nearly finished giving Stanford University's venerable stadium a $5 million face-lift...
Prabhu learned, too that lift outside ofthe council and the headlines can be refreshing.Prabhu has seen council members who have "been inthe spotlight for so long and lost their sense ofperspective." She said she would not discouragepeople form entering the spotlight, but "I wouldquestion why they're doing...
...capital campaign will also finance a physical transformation of the campus. While first-year dorms are getting a face lift, the construction projects likely to have the greatest effect are those which will shape the intellectual life of the faculty...
...House blasted President Clinton's position on Bosnia by voting to lift the U.S. arms embargo against the Muslim-led government. The directive won by a wide margin and follows a similar measure passed by the Senate. The measure has no legal force in itself, but poses political problems for the President. The present White House stance is to reluctantly support the European-backed embargo and to carve up Bosnia into Serb, Muslim and Croat domains. This position is a reversal of Clinton's longstanding wish to provide arms to the underdog Bosnians. Until recently, the Administration "had thrown...