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...wake of Susan's own suicide attempt at age 13, psychiatrists recommended that she be hospitalized for depression. Her mother and stepfather refused, and if we find it "unthinkable" that a mother could kill her own children, it is not a whole lot less unthinkable that a mother could reject a chance to help a child bent on killing herself...
Moderate Republicans in the House joined Democrats to reject, in a 212-to-206 vote, a Republican initiative that would have limited the Environmental Protection Agency's enforcement powers. The vote killed a series of riders attached to a spending bill that would have barred the epa from using its funds to enforce such regulations as those governing commercial development of the nation's wetlands. Fifty-one Republicans broke ranks to block the proposed limits...
...them if they won't change their minds about a few of these. The real fireworks will start if the commission sends back the same list, because then he will have to either accept it, or do what no President has done in four previous base closing rounds and reject the proposals...
...parliament just two days before a crucial confidence vote inPresident Boris Yeltsin's Presidency. Parliament members demanded that Yeltsin dismiss the officials whenthey backed down from mounting impeachment proceedings against the President. Still, the move may be purely cosmetic. Yeltsin can wait until after the vote to accept or reject the resignations...
...changes. The United Nations simply does not need a separate agency with its own acronym, stationery and bureaucracy for every problem." That said, Clinton defended the organization against congressional critics. "Turning our backs on the U.N. is no solution. It would be shortsighted and self-destructive," Clinton said. "We reject the siren song of the new isolationists." Bosnia, the open wound of U.N. failure, received only a passing reference to U.N. work "in the Balkans to isolate aggressors...