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...other side, of course. That's the spin that both President Clinton and Republican leaders put on the compromise that formally reopened the Federal Government after a bitter six-day budgetary impasse. Republicans gloated that the deal commits the President to a seven-year time frame for a balanced budget. The President and his aides happily pointed out that the agreement requires Congress to respect White House priorities on such matters as Medicare, education, environmental protection and taxes...
...six-day "Where's Joe Waldholtz?" saga ended Friday when the missing husband of Utah Representative Enid Greene Waldholtz turned himself in to federal authorities in Washington. Waldholtz, who mysteriously vanished from the city's National Airport, will be questioned about apparent personal and campaign financial irregularities. During his absence, Representative Waldholtz announced that she planned to divorce her husband (and close political aide), citing his "incredible level of deception...
Davis's election, which culminated in the six-day process of hand-counting more than 19,000 ballots, ensures that the council will be evenly split between progressive Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) candidates and conservatives endorsed by the Alliance for Change...
...Israel news of the assassination sent thousands to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the wall that Rabin had helped capture as the Israeli army's chief of staff in the Six-Day War of 1967. Scores of mourners brought candles to stand sentinel over both Rabin's private home on Rabbi Ashi street in Tel Aviv and his official residence in Jerusalem. Said one mourner in Jerusalem, pharmacology student Dganit Safrai: "This is the end we can expect for someone who makes peace. He was so strong, it seemed as if nothing could happen...
AMERICANS HAVE AN UNFORTUNATE TENDENCY TO Think "ISLAMIC" or "Arab" when they hear the word terrorist. In Israel people know better: violent, hate-filled Jewish groups have been part of the political landscape there since Israel seized the Sinai, West Bank and Gaza Strip during the Six-Day War in 1967. They have insisted that these lands must be retained as part of Israel's biblical birthright--by violence if necessary. And they consider any Jew who opposes them a traitor to the race...