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BORIS YELTSIN Bold speeches, but scant funds for Sakhalin quake relief...
...ongoing debacle in Bosnia. The attack on Zagreb marked a new nadir of humiliation for U.N. peacekeepers, who were variously ignored by attacking Croats, taken hostage by Krajina Serbs and dropped into the midst of a fire fight when they returned to the sector on Thursday under the scant cover of a U.N.-declared cease-fire. U.N. special representative Yasushi Akashi, who is head of the U.N.'s peacekeeping operation in the former Yugoslavia, managed after the second round of rockets to engineer a cease-fire in Sector West. But when he tried to fly into the sector on Thursday...
Thompson, however, says his hands were tied by the threat of Gov. William F. Weld '66 to veto anything more than a scant handful of protections...
...With a scant one minute removed from the clock, the Crimson (7-5 overall, 3-2 Ivy) put its first tally on the board...
Understandably, the White House is offering no help or cover in the struggle that the Republicans have taken on by putting forth such contradictory goals in their Contract. Clinton sent Congress a budget with a scant $80 billion deficit reduction over the next five years, a gesture that told the Republicans they were on their own. Kasich, Clinton Budget Director Alice Rivlin told TIME, ``has got a huge job. The Republicans have undertaken an enormously difficult task.'' Yet the six-term Ohio Congressman seems to feel it is his responsibility, if not his destiny. ``We have an obligation to leave...