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...last week President Bill Clinton decided the symbolic gesture was worth the risks and ordered U.S. C-130 transport planes to drop food and medicine to besieged towns and villages in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. Before a single parcel even reached the ground, the Bosnian government in Sarajevo began plastering the city with posters of Clinton overlaid with an open hand. THANKS, BILL, read the text. THANKS, AMERICA. It was more than simple gratitude from people who still believe -- perhaps vainly -- that the U.S. will save them. "The Americans are in 100% now," said Bosnian Vice President Ejup Ganic...
Gary Gainnino, property manager of the Charles Hotel, said that a caller to the residences at the Charles Hotel on 975 Memorial Drive had claimed that some United Parcel Service packages to be delivered that day "contained some stuff that could hurt some people...
Doug Bailey, the publisher of the Political Hotline, noted last week that some of the momentum of Clinton's election has been lost in the mixed messages of the transition. "The economic summit was part and parcel of their goal to define the mandate of the election," Bailey said. "But if you ask voters now what is the mandate, people could only guess." In the wake of his broken pledges, Clinton made a point last week of repeating his top five priorities: increasing growth and investment, reducing the deficit, reforming health care, instituting national service and reforming campaign finance...
...denied to other journalists. When former Nairobi bureau chief James Wilde flew in from Istanbul, Mutiso persuaded a charter pilot bound for Mogadishu to add one more passenger, even though there were no more seats on his airplane. In the end, says Mutiso, Wilde was stowed "like a big parcel" behind the pilot, and off they went...
...instance, the Faculty stopped using Federal Express after completing a bulk packaging arrangement with United Parcel Services, according to Associate Dean of the Faculty for Finance Candace R. Corvey...