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...general, Ross Perot declared last week, he wants Bill Clinton to succeed in a big way. "Nothing would please us more than to see his face on Mount Rushmore within six months." But would Perot support the Clinton budget resolution that's sweeping through Congress? Definitely not, because the measure in its current form, says Perot, is "another cloud going...
...higher winds, killed more people. But for combined extent and intensity, the Blizzard of '93, as it was called in most of the U.S., was in a class by itself. Tornadoes in Florida, record cold in Alabama (2 degreesF in Birmingham), mountainous snows from North Carolina (50 in. at Mount Mitchell) to New York (43 in. at Syracuse), hurricane-force winds (110 m.p.h. in Franklin County, Florida) -- all were part of the same monster storm system that from March 12 to March 15 spread death and destruction from Cuba, where three died, to the Canadian Maritimes (four killed). Deaths totaled...
...blame itself for some extra cost. In 1992 it refused to put up any more money, so the federal cleanup agency for almost a year has been unable to sell off the assets of 83 failed S&Ls it has taken over. It can only absorb losses that mount every day that Congress dawdles...
...marsh fighters have given up hope that the Western allies will mount a large-scale rescue. "When we saw the allied jets ignore the guns that were killing us and hit only the missiles that threatened their planes last year, we knew we had been abandoned," said a rebel leader in Tehran...
...usually so meager that these attorneys maintain a private practice on the side. Such a system, says Bright, results in "lawyers who view their responsibilities as unwanted burdens, have no inclination to help the client and have no incentive to learn or to develop criminal trial skills." When expenses mount, they economize by refusing the collect calls of their jailed clients. Under a contract system, says L.A.'s Tennenbaum, "you don't investigate, you don't ask for continuances, you plead at the earliest possible moment...