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...would vacate 80 percent of Hebron, a city of 94,000 Palestinians, and only patrol about 20 percent of the area, providing security for 450 Israeli settlers. "The proposal is a slap in the face to the Palestinians," says TIME's Johanna McGeary. "Netanyahu is trying to do the minimum he can to keep to the letter of the accords while serving his security conscious constituents and the noisy little community of Jewish settlers in Hebron. The PLO knows that no new accords are on the horizon, and are determined to make Netanyahu stick to the agreements. The redeployment would...
...court can rule - within the next sixty days. TIME's Alexandra Stiglmayer in Sarajevo says the agreement may not lead to an effective government. "The Croats will boycott the city council in other ways. They simply do not want an undivided city." At least an agreement would buy a minimum of two months of valuable time. International mediators, determined to preserve the Dayton peace accords that ended years of war in Bosnia, fear that unless the Croats can be convinced to honor the Mostar election, a dangerous precedent would be set jeopardizing the integrity of Bosnia's September elections. Says...
...older and more mature than the '92 group: three were competing in their second Olympics, and the average age was 18. Moceanu, the tiny 14-year-old who got the most advance press hype, was an exception that will soon be against the rules; for the 2000 Games, the minimum age for competition has been changed...
...serious reform package designed to move people from welfare to work will entail certain short-term expenses, including provisions for child care and other supports that boost the effective wages of the working poor. Congress took one step in that direction by raising the minimum wage, which had fallen to its lowest level since 1956. Now it is taking two steps back...
...passed by a 421-2 margin and is headed for a similar reception in the Senate today, ensures portability of coverage from job to job, prohibits denial of insurance because of existing medical conditions and increases the health care deduction for the self-employed. Taken with a 90-cent minimum wage increase, passed by week's end, the health care and welfare reforms ensure that this Congress will leave its mark. "We've seen Congress go from gridlock to Olympic gold," Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott told a group of cheering Republicans. Maybe. "Congress is like the sprint cyclists...