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...there was someone else hitting the hustings in traditionally G.O.P. territory. Governor Clinton rode his postdebate bounce into the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Northwest regions and even held a well-attended rally in Orange County, California, prototypical rock-ribbed Republican country, where he urged members of the audience to "hold their noses and vote for a Democrat." All the national polls continued to show Clinton in the lead, although the margins of approval varied markedly and a TIME/CNN poll showed the gap could be as slight as 3% if weighted toward not just those registered to vote but those most...
...central Bosnia. This time, instead of fighting Serbs, the government forces struggled with their erstwhile allies, the Croats. Aside from signaling the probable end to an uneasy but crucial alliance for the besieged Muslims, this latest fighting further threatened efforts to provide humanitarian aid to Bosnia. Vitez, 31 miles northwest of Sarajevo, was supposed to be the forward base for a British regiment scheduled for deployment next month to protect aid convoys; a reconnaissance group was pinned down by cross fire there on Tuesday. Shelling in Kiseljak, directly under the flight approach to Sarajevo, was so fierce by Wednesday that...
...president wants to override the Endangered Species Act in order to allow logging in previously protected areas of the Pacific Northwest's virgin forest. A federal court has temporarily blocked the action, since it would lead to the extinction of the spotted owl and thus violate...
...Vice President Bush vowed to combat the greenhouse effect with the "White House effect," and mercilessly attacked Michael Dukakis for his failure to clean up Boston Harbor. But last June, President Bush played Scrooge at the Earth Summit in Brazil. In September he visited timber country in the Pacific Northwest, where he promised to lift a court-imposed injunction that has halted logging in federally owned ancient forests. His Interior Department is planning to open national forests to private strip mining. What happened between 1988 and 1992? Politics happened...
Most of the buildings targeted are abandoned 2-to-3 story homes in the northwest section of the city, Burton says. He said the fire department be-lieves that the burned-out dwellings may be the work of competitive drug dealers, their vengeful customers, or high school kids looking for entertainment on a Saturday night...