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...vote of 64-31, the Senate dumped a proposal by Arlen Specter, R.-Pa., that would have required President Clinton to get Congress's O.K. before invading Haiti -- just two days after all 100 Senators backed an opposite resolution. Even many invasion opponents concede that tying the Chief Executive's hands is unconstitutional...
...started in the small town of Hastings, Pa, about 110 miles east of Pittsburgh. There, Restic was one of 10 children born to Louis Restic, a Ukrainian-born coalminer, and his Polish wife. He attended a one-room red schoolhouse in the city where all eight grades were taught by a Mrs. Mary Kline, a woman crippled by polio. Every day for all of Restic's eight years at the school, she would painstakingly write lessons on the board with her crippled right...
After the war, Restic went to college. Discovered by Jim Leonard, the head football coach at St. Francis College in Loretto, Pa. while kicking a football in his barefeet in his yard, Restic went on to play for Leonard at St. Francis and later at Villanova as a receiver and a defensive back. He starred for both teams, earning the nickname "Razor" from his teammates for his 6-4 195 pound frame, lightning speed, and hard-hitting tendencies. Restic received his degree from Villanova...
...conference, held at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, attracted about 20 mayors from cities ranging from Allentown, Pa., to Toledo, Ohio. Yesterday, the participants attended an opening seminar on "Managing Transition" led by Martha S. Wood, mayor of Winston-Salem...
...Chinese" native of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and more recently, of Allentown, PA, the actress who played the adolescent Lindo in Wayne Wang's movie made her debut at Harvard this year--as a student, that is. Fresh from the glitz and razzmatazz of Hollywood, the 18-year old Ng has swapped her scripts and jet-setting lifestyle for good old-fashioned text-books and the coziness of 29 Garden Street. Drama has been placed on the backburner while she devotes herself to her studies. "It's too bad that I'm not honing my craft, but I have so much...