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President Clinton wants the leadership of the Democratic party to be split up into two parts, with Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut overseeing policy and South Carolina Democratic party chief Donald Fowler in charge of the daily operations. White House spokesman Mike McCurry said today that an announcement was likely "in a matter of days" if the shared responsibility arrangement can be resolved to Fowler and Dodd's satisfaction. Under the arrangement, Dodd would assume the title of general chairman of the Democratic National Committee and Fowler, chairman. The scheme is similar to one adopted by the Republicans under President...
Attorney General Reno says there is only so much her department can do. But a Planned Parenthood spokesman insists the Beacon Street clinic had been receiving more threats than usual over the past month -- perhaps because it is one of 20 facilities around the country testing RU-486, the so-called French abortion pill. Some Beacon Street clinic workers claim they had asked the local Justice Department office to supply protection -- a charge the U.S. Attorney would not discuss...
...welfare reform. The GOP proposal would cut several federal programs and give cash directly to states. Stephanie Carter, a Dean spokeswoman, told TIME Daily that Dean objected most strenuously to the fact that the Republican delegation had "signed off on a platform separate and on its own." A spokesman for the Democratic Governors Association agreed: "The traditional bipartisanship of the NGA is breaking down," said Doug Richardson of the DGA. On the Republican side, though, a spokesman for Tommy Thompson, Republican of Wisconsin and vice chair of the NGA, says the Democrats are just plain jealous. "It's just...
...technology to build a fighter jet. If true, the illegal transfer would trigger U.S. sanctions. The announcement came in response to an Associated Press report quoting a senior Israeli official as saying Israel had sold China "some technology on aircraft" under contracts "very small in magnitude." Said State Department spokesman Mike McCurry, who conceded that rumors of such a transfer had been circulating for some time: "Those types of reports concern us very deeply."TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllisternotes this is not the first time U.S. officials have believed that Israel sold arms to third parties. A March...
...morning of Dec. 7 in Rome, a group of TIME editors and correspondents confronted that challenge firsthand. They were glumly assembled in expectation of a papal audience they would share with roughly 7,000 others. Days earlier, Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls had reluctantly informed Paris bureau chief Thomas Sancton that His Holiness would decline TIME's request for a private meeting. While pleased to be chosen as Man of the Year, John Paul didn't wish to appear to have collaborated on the project. The Time team could have front-row seats at one of the Pope's massive...