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...referenda, Question 5--which would permit stores to open Sunday mornings--would be the first to take effect. Retailers have already begun preparations to extend Sunday hours starting December...
...from under them. Clinton's handling of the first major surprise to be sprung by soon-to- be House Speaker Newt Gingrich was anything but surefooted. Right after the election, Gingrich declared that in the next session of Congress, House Republicans plan to introduce a constitutional amendment to permit school prayer, an item that didn't appear in the G.O.P.'s "Contract with America." When reporters asked Clinton about it in Jakarta, where he was attending the summit of Asian Pacific leaders, he replied with a small surprise of his own. "I certainly wouldn't rule it out," he offered...
...trouble. By first appearing to endorse Gingrich's proposal, Clinton opened himself to attack from liberals who oppose school prayer. White House aides spent the next day backtracking, explaining that what the President had in mind was not a constitutional amendment but a legislative act to permit a moment of silence in classrooms like the one he had signed as Governor of Arkansas in 1985. While that could be acceptable to many Democrats as well as Republicans, the way the White House handled it reinforced Clinton's image as the Great Vacillator...
...Saturday the U.N. Security Council voted to permit NATO air strikes into Croatia, forcing NATO officials to confer nervously on how to put the resolution into effect. The escalating warfare could not have come at a worse time for the NATO allies and the members of the five-nation contact group that has been working on a plan to partition the country. Mired in their own disagreements over how to end the war, almost anything they might try seemed likely to add to the tensions. The Europeans, especially the French, are outraged at the U.S. decision to stop enforcing...
Though stressing that commuter airlines are safe, the National Transportation Safety Board nonetheless recommended that safety rules for such airlines be upgraded to the tougher standards currently imposed on major carriers. The Federal Aviation Administration said it agreed and would work to revise the rules, which now permit commuter pilots to fly more hours and undergo less rigorous training than those of the majors...