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Weld met yesterday with Rep. John E. McDonough (D-Jamaica Plain), who had shepherded the original plan through the legislature. Weld adamantly opposed two of McDonough's suggestions: the continuation of rent control boards and of vacancy decontrol plans, in which units are removed from rent control when their occupants leave. Boston and Brookline currently have vacancy decontrol programs...
...Rep. Dan Glickman, a Kansas Democrat who held a congressional seat for 18 years, is set to be nominated by President Clinton to replace Agriculture Sec. Mike Espy, who's resignation was announced this fall. Glickman was a member of the Agriculture Committee and was an author of the 1990 farm bill. He was swept out of office last month in the Republican landslide...
...helicopter pilot who survived last Saturday's downing in North Korea, might be released this weekend, according to Rep. Bill Richardson, who's serving as a U.S. envoy to Pyongyang. Though North Korea has said only that Chief Warrant Officer Bobby Hall would be sent home "very soon" after being detained during a probe of the incident. Richardson, Democrat from New Mexico, said Hall was "in good shape and I think he'll be home before Christmas." Earlier Thursday, Richardson accompanied the casket carrying the body of the pilot killed in the incident, Chief Warrant Officer David Hilemon...
North Korea today agreed to send home the remains of David Hilemon, one of two the U.S. helicopters pilots shot down Saturday after they strayed into North Korean airspace. But U.S. officials obtained no agreement on co-pilot Bobby Hall, who reportedly was taken captive after surviving the incident. Rep. Bill Richardson (D-N.M.), who was in Pyongyang to discuss the nuclear accord that the U.S. might delay because of the copter tragedy, will oversee the return of Hilemon's body. North Korea's official radio reported Hall was "now in good health," but said Pyongyang would hold...
...Korea's side of the Korean peninsula's demilitarized zone: "That is an unusual display of candor and openness by the United States and we hope it will be reciprocated by the North Koreans in a prompt response." A 45-minute meeting today between U.S. and North Korean officials -- Rep. Bill Richard