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...lifting of the U.N. embargo on weapons shipments to the Bosnian government, an idea Clinton has frequently endorsed, the White House pressured Dole into backing off because most of the allies are opposed. The President expressed interest in a Russian proposal for a summit conference on Bosnia, which could prompt a settlement -- but that settlement could be a new Munich...
...American Free Trade Agreement to create a U.S.-Canada-Mexico common market, and the pledge by the 119 members of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to lower trade barriers worldwide. Those reflect a presidential focus on economic policy, international as well as domestic, so intense as to prompt Uwe Nerlich, deputy director of the Institute for Policy and Security in Germany, to grumble that Clinton's foreign policy seems mainly to be "a national export policy...
...panel of experts has concluded that standard screening tests for ovarian cancer are too imprecise to justify their costs. Blood tests and ultrasound often produce false alarms, which prompt doctors to perform unnecessary exploratory surgery...
Undergraduates with University accounts on the Internet can access the magazine by typing "/scratch/lynx http://hcs/" when they reach the "husc" prompt on their computers...
...moderate, low-inflationary 3% -- at least for the rest of the year. That of course is the optimistic scenario. The pessimistic one? Well, there is an old joke about the store owner who was miffed that no one would ask him, "How's business?" -- but when he finally did prompt someone to raise that question, clapped his hand to his head and moaned...