Word: rump
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...record, not explicitly -- a further sop to the aggressors, if only they would cease further killing. That prospective inducement looked very much like a prize that the U.S., particularly since Clinton became President, has sought expressly to deny the "ethnic cleansers": formation of a Greater Serbia between the rump Yugoslav state and the Serbs in breakaway Bosnia and Croatia. Douglas Hurd, the British Foreign Secretary, and French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe were to visit Belgrade this week to consult on the initiative with Slobodan Milosevic, Serbia's nationalistic President...
...that moment, Chafee could have answered "not much." He and six other members of a self-styled "rump" group of moderate Democrats and Republicans had little more than a five-paragraph outline of a proposal. By week's end the group had lost one supporter but had forged ahead, led by Chafee and Louisiana Democrat John Breaux, and presented a 30-page draft plan to Moynihan. A 100- page draft was promised for this week...
Supporters of firm guarantees for universal coverage sharply criticized the compromise. "We view the plan as gimmickry at its worst. It sells consumers down the river," said Bob Carolla, legislative counsel for Consumers Union. Reaction by the White House to the rump group's plan was muted. "Encouraging," said Lorrie McHugh, the White House's health-care spokeswoman. Earlier in the week, Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered a fiery call to arms to supporters of the Administration's plan, urging them to stand firm. "No other reform in our health-care system will work if we do not achieve guaranteed universal...
Even so, ardent supporters of Clinton's original plan, both in the White House and on the Hill, view the rump-group proposal as little more than a convenient, temporary tool for getting a proposal past the Finance Committee. Once that happens, they expect Mitchell to fashion a bill for consideration by the full Senate drawn largely from the Labor Committee proposal. That plan retains Clinton's provision requiring companies to pay for 80% of their workers' insurance premiums, an idea that small-business lobbyists have all but killed...
Ending 27 years of occupation, Israel completed its withdrawal from a self- rule enclave in the Gaza Strip. The pullout "corrects a tremendous mistake," said Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. A rump force of Israeli soldiers will remain to protect the 19 Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip. At week's end, Islamic militants killed two Israeli soldiers at a border checkpoint...