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...members. After a 10-month investigation, the 12-member ethics committee unanimously recommended that Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank be given a "reprimand" by the full House for his help to a male prostitute, Steve Gobie. The committee had been deadlocked for weeks, as Democrats argued for issuing only a mild letter of "reproval" to Frank while Republicans demanded a more severe punishment. The committee asked the House to scold Frank for fixing parking tickets that Gobie had picked up while driving the Congressman's car, and for using his official stationery to intercede with Gobie's probation officers. It rejected...
...Nelson Mandela has traveled 63,350 miles in 84 days to 23 countries, urging the retention of sanctions against South Africa and raising hackles by his refusal to denounce Fidel Castro and other revolutionaries who have supported his cause. The strain is showing: last week Mandela came down with mild pneumonia in Ethiopia. Mandela, who turns 72 this week, is considering a vacation that could raise some eyebrows: a three-week Caribbean sojourn as Castro's guest in Cuba...
...have no intention of leaving a country's capital, tote along a few basic supplies. If you want to read a book in your own language, bring it with you. If you plan to record the visit with your camera, bring film. If you | are used to smoking mild cigarettes, bring them. If you plan to do a lot of walking in new shoes, pack some bandages. All these things are available -- but not everywhere and not always...
...both. Harry Caldecote, the retired librarian in Amis' 20th novel, The Folks That Live on the Hill, should be beyond all that fiddle. "He had taken an early retirement deal just ahead of the new technology," writes Amis. "The fate in store for him had seemed to be mild, relative penury relieved by idleness...
...script called for blizzard scenes at a major airport. To film it, the entire cast and crew of this summer's Die Hard 2 embarked on a multimillion- dollar odyssey last December that led them to normally snowy Denver and northern Michigan. But relentlessly mild weather in both places forced 20th Century Fox to abandon its costly snow chase and shoot the sequel to the 1988 Bruce Willis thriller on a Los Angeles sound stage. As if that humiliation was not enough, the delays and moving expenses helped push the film's original $40 million budget to as high...