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DAMASCUS: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's offer to restart stalled peace negotiations with Syria was met with a decidedly low-key response from the Syrian government. On a trip to Jordan Monday, Netanyahu had proposed peace talks on all outstanding matters, but did not retract any of his many earlier statements that Israel required the Golan Heights for its security and would not return the land to Syria. Although Syria's government has not officially rejected the offer, an editorial in Tuesday's edition of Tishrin called the offer "honey-coated" but not serious. "Although Tishrin speaks...
Okay, so what do I do? Do I just sit back, relax, let old age sneak up behind me and KAPOW!, I'm watching "Matlock?" Do I fight it by regression--dust off my old G.I. Joes and restart the never-ending combat with Cobra? Do I run to stay in place, or as John Cougar Mellencamp put it, "hold on to 16 as long...
...tough decision if Adams applies for a visa to visit the U.S. Clinton's decision to grant Adams his first visa, in February 1994, was an enormous step in giving him international stature. The Administration says it will base its decision on the results of Adams' efforts to restart the peace process...
...YORK CITY: Pan Am is back from the dead. Investors have raised $30 million to restart the engines of the historic airline that stalled out of business in 1991. Starting this summer, Pan Am will try to squeeze its way back into the crowded skies as a low-cost carrier with 400 to 500 employees, many of whom will be recruited from original Pan-Am workers who were laid off. The new company, which bought the rights to the Pan Am name at a bankruptcy auction for $1.3 million, will be headed by Martin Shugrue, chief operating officer...
...expect a complete bill, nothing less will do." The GOP reaction is mostly posturing, notes TIME's James Carney. "The Republicans fully expected this veto and are trying to use it to paint Clinton as abandoning welfare reform, but the issue is still very much alive pending the restart of budget talks." A key Clinton objection concerns GOP proposals to replace federal welfare guarantees with flexible block grants to states and impose lifetime limits on families receiving welfare. The President seeks stronger federal guarantees, and also wants GOP lawmakers to restore reductions to the earned income tax credit which...