Word: shores
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...showing it yet. The G.O.P. has enough votes in the House, and probably enough in the Senate, to force through their version of Medicare. That could lead to a Clinton veto, which would free each party to go before voters next year and blame the other for failing to shore up the system...
...Italian official ever to be tried on mob charges. "Much of the testimony against Andreotti is supplied by pentiti -- repentant Mafiosi -- and 26 are scheduled to testify against him," Greg Burke reports from the trial. "There's considerable debate about how reliable the testimony of ex-Mafiosi is." To shore himself up, Burke adds, Andreotti wants to bring in former U.S. ambassadors to talk about his commitment in fighting the Mafia...
JOHN STEINBECK TOLD OF A GIANT SEA creature washed ashore in Monterey, California, in the 1940s. Word spread quickly around town. Folks rushed to the shore to examine the fearful monster but found a local scientist had already posted a note on it--"Don't worry about it. It's a basking shark.'' Nothing mysterious. Nothing to get excited about. Once again, science had drained the life and beauty out of nature. Let's leave the deep sea alone and let it retain the one thing that seems to be increasingly rare on this shrinking planet--mystique. RANDY OLSON...
...university-funded craft called Odyssey and Woods Hole's Autonomous Benthic Explorer--have just completed tests off the coast of Washington and Oregon. Eventually, fleets of these robots could communicate among themselves to provide information in the most efficient way, periodically surfacing to beam their data to researchers on shore...
...Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali cleared the way for promptNATO airstrikesifSerbs, as expected, attack the "safe area" of Gorazde. Trying to shore up fast-eroding domestic support for the Bosnian arms embargo, President Clinton declared the U.N. move "the last chance" for the international peacekeeping mission in Bosnia: "You can't go about the world saying you're going to do something and then not do it." If the House follows the Senate with a veto-proof lifting of the ban, Clinton fears the ensuing warfare will trigger a massive U.N. withdrawal requiring escort by 25,000 U.S. troops. TIME...