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...leader Bob Dole--once a defender and now critic of affirmative action--continued to be tripped up by the apparent contradictions of his record. In the mid-1980s, Dole tried to help a black former aide benefit from a small-business affirmative-action program that he now wants to scrap. Dole's office explained that the Senator tries to make sure "constituents are treated fairly while working to change the system...
...over Lockerbie, Scotland. Britain and France, who also want to try the Libyan intelligence officers, have agreed to help. But Secretary of State Warren Christopher, in announcing the plan today, conceded that it would be tough to persuade the rest of Libya's dozen-odd European customers to scrap flourishing oil deals with the country. President Clinton, mindful of pressure by families of the 270 bombing victims, has twice asked the U.N. Security Council to add oil exports to its embargo against Libya...
Republicans muscled theirsweeping welfare reform packagethrough the House in a charged 234-199 partisan vote. The bill, which would scrap 45 programs for the poor in favor of few-strings-attached grants to the states, proposes the most fundamental change in the American social contract sinceFDR. "We are sweeping away a destructive system and we are putting in a system that can work," said Rep. Clay Shaw (R-Fla.). Among the basics to go: school lunches, foster care support and child care to the country's neediest women and children. Parents would be required to work after two years...
...that spreading the benefits around to everyone would shield Social Security from political attack. He funded it through a separate payroll tax to keep it closely identified in the minds of voters as a payback for their working years. That way, he once said, "no damn politician can ever scrap my Social Security program...
...judges for the slam, hand-picked from the audience by Brown, aren't quite as inconspicuous. They mark their scores for each poet on a scrap of paper with a fat Crayola marker. The audience also acts as judge, prodded by Brown to "respond appropriately--which means not always well." The crowd laughs and, as if anyone needs encouragment, the bartender shouts out: "drink a little more and the poetry will sound even better...