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SACRAMENTO: The Unabomber trial will wait a week or more while Ted Kaczynski faces what he fears most: the pokings and proddings of a team of psychiatrists. Everyone associated with the trial expects him to pass muster--even after the presumed suicide attempt. "The hurdle is so low," says TIME San Francisco Bureau Chief David Jackson, in Sacramento covering the trial. "Burrell already considers him competent; Kaczynski only needs to understand both the nature and consequences of the crime. But the competency issue has to be settled...
...commercial filmed in a Moscow outlet this week, the former Soviet leader smiles with as much dignity as he can muster while customers conclude that his crowning achievement is their access to America?s favorite pie. ?They had to work hard to persuade Gorbachev to do the ad,? says TIME's Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier, ?because he knows how humiliating it is. But his foundation desperately needs the money...
...offense was, as had become the pattern, slow to start, and could not compete with Cornell's powerful defense. The Bulldogs could muster only a field goal and a touchdown--no more...
...chemical warfare off the face of the earth...I don't want a bunch of terrorists with laboratories in their briefcases going from airport to airport wreaking havoc in the world." That was the kind of rhetoric Americans will need to hear more of if Clinton is to muster opinion in favor of a sustained conflict. But Clinton wasn't addressing the American people when he said it. He was talking to big donors at a Democratic National Committee fund raiser...
...result is fatter lobbying bandwidth than Microsoft seemed able or willing to muster in the past. Days after the Justice decision, spinmeisters in Redmond were dialing Washington State's congressional delegation to demand retaliatory action. Before last week's Senate hearing, Weber and Downey met privately with Judiciary Committee members, arguing that federal interference would stifle the high-tech industry's fabled spirit of innovation at the behest of a bunch of whining marketplace losers. A consulting outfit called the Strategic Alliance Group devised a clumsy plan to buff Microsoft's image by wooing consumer groups away from Nader...