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...Although the Maritime Agency has acted within its powers, from the administration's point of view it has the look of an unplanned event," says TIME correspondent Adam Zagorin. "I don't think the White House intended to have a major showdown with Japan over this...
...Crimson will look to shake off its scoring jinx when it travels to Boston College Tuesday afternoon before heading to New Haven this weekend for an important Ivy showdown with Yale.CrimsonHenry G. WeiGETTING AHEAD: Junior striker NAOMI MILLER heads the ball upfield...
...they like a good fight--it's the fights they like to pick. Time and again, most notably during the government shutdown in 1995, the Clinton Administration has beat up on G.O.P. lawmakers and in the end subjected them to painful public embarrassment. So when House Republicans forced a showdown last week with the President over his treasured plan for national math and reading tests for students--despite a White House threat to veto an entire spending bill if the testing money was not included--it seemed on the face of it that these guys were just gluttons for punishment...
...unions aim to find out where they stand. The next showdown is likely to involve the 2,000 pilots of the Independent Pilots Association who fly UPS aircraft. I.P.A. president Robert Miller, echoing the Teamsters, declares that his pilots are no longer prepared to accept salaries below the industry average. Elsewhere, a slew of collective-bargaining confrontations is upcoming, but none with the public impact of UPS. President Clinton averted a potential strike by Amtrak workers last week. The United Food and Commercial Workers, representing 44,000 supermarket workers in Northern California, has a contract expiring in February...
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia: An unusually aggressive NATO raid here has set the stage for a potentially violent showdown between rival Serb factions. A force of 350 heavily-armed British troops backed by American Apache choppers knocked out the local power base of hardline leader and wanted war criminal Radovan Karadzic ? and met no resistance...