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...This election marked a point of no return for Massachusetts," Weld said in his victory speech. "Would we turn back or push forward? Would we render the past four years a momentary diversion or make them the initial steps in a new direction...
...long time -- cut each House member's staff by a third.Clinton's personal cause -- healthcare -- is on the back burner for now. "The administration has no choice but to come in with a drastically scaled back plan -- if at all," Tumulty says. Legislation that a Gingrich-Dole Congress will push is likely to contain elements of the Reaganite Contract with America: Tax cuts, stronger death penalty laws, welfare reform and term limits.Post your opinion to theElection '94bulletin board
That is what drove Horn to push for better cooperation with Burma's military junta, the State Law and Order Restoration Council. He and his DEA bosses concluded there was no other way to hurt Burma's drug kingpins like Khun Sa, who has some 20,000 men organizing production and distribution routes. But that goal collided with the main thrust of U.S. policy. After the junta nullified an election and killed thousands of protesters, the U.S. cut off aid and trade privileges and then refused to send a new ambassador. Ever since, the State Department has tried to minimize...
Before going to Damascus to meet Assad, Clinton warned there would be no "dramatic breakthrough," explaining carefully that he hoped only to give the stalled negotiations a push forward. After his four hours of talks, Clinton claimed he had done that -- at least in private. "We've made some progress today," he said, "the details of which I'm not at liberty to discuss." Though evidence of such progress was scant, Rabin politely agreed there was some. Syrians and Israelis alike told Clinton they wanted peace and would work to achieve it. That was slightly promising and probably about...
...rudimentary underground run by Korean ethnics. There is as yet no wholesale stampede from the North similar to what happened in the last days of East Germany, but any openings like the agreement two weeks ago between Washington and Pyongyang just might give potential defectors an extra push. The refugees make good propaganda for South Korea, which stages press conferences for new arrivals and keeps them under close observation for several months to help them adjust to their new life and ensure that they are not double agents...