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...prospect of stumbling into a quagmire or of outright failure looms large for a President who was elected to cure domestic ills and who, as he begins his second 100 days in office, is already in political trouble. Clinton told a television interviewer last week that he was distressed when he heard the Bosnian Serbs had refused to go along with the peace plan negotiated by Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen. "I don't want to have to spend any more time on that than is absolutely necessary," Clinton said, "because what I got elected...
First, a brief moment for the facts: two days ago the leader of the Bosnian Serbs, Radovan. Karadzic, signed on to the Vance-Owen peace plan. This development came only after months of outright rejection of the plan by the Serbs...
...walked through the Las Vegas Hilton exposing their testicles or ran naked around the pool. The report is full of lurid new details about the scandal, but it may not be the whole story. Investigators believe "several hundred" of the naval officers interviewed concealed information and 51 others lied outright. Pentagon Deputy Inspector General Derek Vander Schaaf has sent files on 140 officers to Navy and Marine Corps commands for possible disciplinary action. And 35 other top brass who attended the convention, including Acting Secretary of the Navy Admiral Frank Kelso, could be punished for failing to prevent the sexual...
...general, it's pretty comfortable," said Amy Anderson Chang, a graduate student in biophysics. "It's not really an outright harassment...sometimes there's a feeling out there that no one really understands...
...Drugs is not the kind of battle ever won outright, but rather refought with every new generation, even every fresh school class. A new survey of 50,000 American youngsters by researchers at the University of Michigan indicates that drug use seems to be steadily declining among high school students but finds, disturbingly, that the opposite is true among eighth-graders. The results indicate that in 1992, 9.5% of eighth-graders (up from 9% in a similar survey in 1991) used inhalants -- glue, nitrous oxide, solvents and other such volatile substances; 7.2% (up from 6.2%) smoked marijuana or hashish...