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...traditional political parties. If new elections were held, no one could be sure how voters would react. In first-round municipal balloting two weeks ago, Berlusconi's party, Forza Italia, dropped from its 30% share last June to only 12%, largely because of public resentment against his drive to shrink the bloated welfare state by reforming government pensions. During his run for the Prime Minister's job, Berlusconi had promised a new economic miracle in which a million new jobs would be created; now he was threatening to give Italy its first serious postwar dose of austerity...
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin received assurances from President Clinton in Washington today that his country's $3 billion annual U.S. aid package -- the largest for any nation -- won't shrink under aGOP-controlled Congress. After the two met for 80 minutes today, Clinton said he would press for even more U.S. money for an Israeli anti-missile defense system. (The president also said he might argue for sending U.S. troops to the Mideast to monitor a possible Israeli-Syrian peace accord in the disputed Golan Heights, but then demurred, saying he'd not yet committed himself.) Incoming Senate Foreign...
...shrink the knowledge gap between specialists and generalists, the paper suggests continuing education programs, broader dissemination of guidelines and more rigorous recertification processes for general practitioners...
Long lines outside the Border Cafe should shrink, thanks to an expansion approved last week by the Cambridge License Commission...
...order to scare the Cedras clique into leaving. If the Carter mission could not talk them into decamping, he would really have to do it -- or send the world a message that threats from Washington can blithely be ignored because when the crunch comes, the U.S. will always shrink from using military force. The reason for toning down the credibility argument was all too clear: if Clinton has a problem, he brought it on himself...