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...recent weeks killed or jailed a group ofNigeria's foremost proponents of democracy.The most prominent political prisoner is former head of state Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo. Today, Nigerian Foreign Minister Tom Ikimi told TIME editors in New York that Abacha "will not be oblivious" to numerous international appeals to spare Obasanjo's behalf, including one from President Clinton. But White says the dictator is just practicing public relations. And he doesn't expect the pressure to increase: "People could understand the injustice in South Africa, because whites persecuted blacks. Nigeria is three times as big, with infinitely more wealth and importance...
...budget-balancing plan that Congress passed last month must be implemented line by line -- a process that has moved behind closed doors, into the hands of veteran horse traders who run the tax and appropriations committees. There lawmakers labor not only to meet their savings targets but also to spare hundreds of special interests from the sacrifice that Congress agreed should be shared by all Americans...
After weeks of private debate, President Clinton approved the base closing commission's recommendations -- but not before publicly agonizing over the decision. Trying to spare himself from the wrath of voters in the hard hit states of California and Texas, Clinton today attacked the commission and those who suggested his concerns over closings in California were merely political. "You tell me that my concern over that economic situation, when the unemployment rate is 8 1/2 percent is political?" Clinton asked. White House spokesman Mike McCurry admitted, though, thatelection politics had something to do with the President's concern...
...counterparts. There could also be a significant increase in sales of U.S. parts in the Japanese repair market if the Japanese government follows through on its agreement to change regulations that now have the effect of making drivers get their cars fixed in designated garages with mostly Japanese-made spare parts...
...NASA engineers are also portrayed in this can-do light. At one point in the movie, as Odyssey begins of fill with carbon dioxide, a group of engineers is gathered together, and a heap of what appear to be spare parts is thrust before them...