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...phones and faxes are buzzing around the cultural corridors of the Northeast. The bills mount as egos read to patient friends the latest draft of angry letters to the editor. Opposing sides, each consisting of trusty comrades, have lined up and fired. The salvo: You're wrong-and not only that, you're morally wrong...
...President for concessions from Mexico City on more favorable labor practices and environmental regulations. House Republicans, though philosophically supportive of the Clinton plan, balked at providing the rest of the votes unless Clinton took a firmer public stand against the demands of the liberal Democrats. Clinton was forced to mount a hurried campaign for passage, and dispatched Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin to bring the rebellious Democrats in line...
Former HUD secretary Jack Kemp will not seek theGOP nomination for president in 1996, Republican Party sources said today. Kemp, once a darling of the far right, reportedly told associates he could not mount a viable campaign at a time when he is out of step with the Party's increasingly aggressive agenda: He opposes term limits, favors tax cuts instead of a balanced-budget amendment and, unlike the vast majority of GOP members, backs federal incentives to combat urban poverty...
...fund's legal losses mount, it is becoming clear that Gifford's preservationist vision does not square with economic reality. The area is, in some sense, a victim of its historic success. With merchants clamoring for space here, rents are now among the highest in the state--so high that small, owner-operated stores can no longer afford them...
...number of other research teams in the United States and Europe are also studying the effects of lead con centrations in bone using the new technology, said Dr. Philip J. Landrigan of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York...