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...stay of foreigners transferred to the U.S. from a company's overseas branches to three years--vs. a five-to-seven-year limit today. To increase the odds that the bill is considered this year, Simpson has cannily tied it to a more popular measure combatting illegal immigration. A softer version cleared the House Judiciary Committee last October...
...extent that is true, police have had to pull themselves in two disparate directions--tougher and softer, as the COPS program in New Orleans illustrates. Tougher means more aggressive intervention. "If we see somebody we don't know, we ask them what they're doing there," says Compass. "If the story doesn't check out, we arrest them for trespassing. Now we don't see as many drug dealers around here." But at the same time, it has meant more neighborhood-friendly tactics, the foot patrolling and problem solving that form the loosely defined strategy called community policing...
...state of emergency because they fear that the assassination will inspire Palestinian enemies of peace to try to kill Arafat, who declined to attend Rabin's funeral for just that reason. Politically, Arafat had come to trust Rabin, and while Peres is viewed as a softer adversary, the Palestinians fear that he will not be able to rally Israel behind him. Says a senior Palestinian Authority official, "The Israeli politicians are sad now. But after three days you will see them again shouting at each other in the Knesset. We will go back to square one, and the victim will...
President Clinton is also intent on winning Florida, which he lost by 2 percentage points in 1992. He is wooing voters there with his policy of blocking Cuban refugees, his anticrime rhetoric and his softer-than-the-Republicans stand on Medicare cutbacks. Vice President Gore kicked off the whole Clinton re-election campaign with two fund raisers in the state last month, and he, his boss and Hillary Clinton expect to make at least four trips there over the next five months. Any excuse will do: two weeks ago Clinton showed up to meet his new nephew and play some...
When Major took over from Margaret Thatcher in 1990, Tories hoped his softer, more conciliatory manner would win them voter approval. He did lead the party to a surprise, come-from-behind victory in the 1992 election--albeit with considerable help from an overconfident Labour campaign. Major has helped broker progress toward peace in Northern Ireland, a considerable achievement. He can also be credited with overseeing a striking economic upturn. Economic growth is strong, exports are booming, and unemployment is at 8.5%, one of the lowest levels in the E.U. This robust performance is dampened only by a continued weakness...