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...like I minded. Having half an hour to jump from my reading period cubby hole in Lamont to a press luncheon at the Ritz for the press screening of "Miami Rhapsody," I appreciated their ogling as quasi votes of confidence...
...divisions into three, reducing staff 12 percent by 1999 and privatizing several key functions. Under the plan, most of the department would be consolidated into an Intermodal Transportation Administration, which would assume the functions of highway, railway and other transit offices. Air traffic control would handled by a quasi-independent body outside the Department. Legal and accounting duplication would be eliminated. Pena will send a detailed plan by March to Congress, which must approve the changes...
...Israel's quasi-governmental Jewish Agency announced it has nearly completed a mass evacuation of Chechen Jews from Grozny's Jewish ruined quarter and its outskirts. Large numbers of Jewish refugees from the region have reported anti-Semitic persecution in recent years, and Israeli sources say the situation has worsened amid the rebellion...
...successor: Amleto (Shakespeare's Hamlet). Under this wavering and unlucky Pope, the postconciliar church went off the rails. All over the world, but particularly in the Americas and Europe, discipline became shaky or even broke down. Thousands of priests gave up their vocations and married. Nuns took to feminism. Quasi heresies like Liberation Theology became the mode. Some hierarchies, such as the Dutch, virtually broke free of Rome. The Vatican began to allow annulments of marriage by the thousands -- amounting to a Catholic sanction of divorce. Its finances were out of control. By the time Paul died...
...last Thursday with reductions in spending. "We must pay for the 'Middle Class Bill of Rights' with new reductions in government spending dollar for dollar," Clinton said. "We have to change yesterday's government." The moves include: turning the Federal Aviation Administration's air traffic control system into a quasi-private corporation (with Federal safety oversight remaining); making the Federal Housing Administration, which guarantees mortgages, another quasi-independent entity; squeezing 60 housing programs into four; and streamlining many Department of Transportation programs into an $11 billion block grant controlled by states. Probably next on the block, White House aides whispered...