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...business, small business, insurers, unions, doctors, nurses, the elderly, the poor -- just about every group well organized enough to employ a lobbyist. And then there is the North American Free Trade Agreement, a legacy from Bush that Clinton has made his own and is pushing toward a showdown vote. Says Wayne Berman, a consultant on trade issues to a think tank and a major insurance company: "This has been a blockbuster summer for Washington lobbyists. The Clinton Administration made it a blockbuster summer by its frenetic activism on budget, taxes, trade and health care...
...first victim of Russia's military hardening, which actually preceded the showdown in Moscow, is the goal of an expanded NATO. The second may be the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE), one of the most important arms- reduction agreements of the past decade. "In the coup of August 1991, the military played a minor role," says Archie Brown, director of Oxford University's Russian and Eastern European Center. "This time its role was crucial. It wants its price, which means that Russia will not be as democratic as we expected. It also means that the Foreign Ministry...
...gridiron early in the season by an inflamed appendix. Nevertheless, he returned for The Game and booted the final extra point of the 36-0 defeat of the Elis, extending Harvard's unbeaten streak to 26 games to close his career. Or was it proved during the Yale showdown the year before? Harvard had never won at the Yale Bowl and had never beaten the Elis twice...
...SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN--Gates McFadden...
Harvard can't be worried about a possible showdown with preseasonpick Dartmouth on October 30. It can't yet be bothered about its trip to New Haven on October...