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...living increases for military pensions. "People have already started screaming and yelling," one person at the retreat told TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty, adding that House members have been asked to look at the list and "categorize the top three they'll get blasted for." Already, Tumulty says, "rump groups" of disgruntled members are forming -- most notably, within the House Agriculture Committee, whose programs would be cut sharply. Outside analysts tell Tumulty that the true test of Republican commitment to their revolution is whether they can really eradicate entire bureaucracies...
...sites, are constantly giving archaeologists more information to work with. Also, dating techniques are becoming more refined. It used to be that scientists needed to test a large sample of paint to pinpoint its age. And, says anthropologist Margaret Conkey, "no one was willing to scrape a bison's rump off the wall." Now it takes only a tiny sample. French prehistory expert Arlette Leroi-Gourhan estimates dates by using pollen particles preserved on cave floors...
...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...
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...