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...billion liability to a municipal pension fund, pay a greater portion of its annual Medicaid bills, and create an incentive plan to stimulate investment in downtown and poor neighborhoods. Despite appearances of a hefty hand-out, the plan will come with strict budgetary strings attached, cautioned White House spokesman Mike McCurry, who touted the deal as a "plan of tough love." The District, for example, would no longer receive its annual $660 million federal stipend, and would be required to balance its multi-billion dollar budget by 1998, one year earlier than presently required by Congress. Mayor Marion Barry...
UNITED NATIONS: U.N. officials furiously screening 80,000 pieces of undelivered mail found yet another pair of letter bombs late Monday night. Identical to the two found earlier that day, the bombs were addressed to the U.N. office of Al-Hayat and fitted into greeting card-sized envelopes. U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said all four bombs were delivered through the U.S. Postal Service and may have been at the U.N. since last week. Monday brought the bombing campaign's first casualties when one device exploded at the Al-Hayat newspaper's London headquarters; two people were injured, one seriously...
...Netanyahu has previously offered. For Arafat, it remains a year too late. U.S. envoy Dennis Ross presented the proposal to the Palestinian leader in what an Arafat aide described as an "extremely tense" six-hour meeting that lasted until early today. "The talks have hit a serious crisis," Arafat spokesman Nabil Abourdeneh told Voice of Palestine radio. "The Israelis are threatening the peace process by making such proposals." The terms for the Israeli removal from Hebron are already set. But now, both sides are playing for leverage on "final status" issues like the future of Jerusalem, Jewish settlements, Palestinian refugees...
...Mathison. Pitt is currently making Seven Years in Tibet. Two sources told the International Campaign for Tibet that they saw the list on a wall at a Chinese Information Travel Service office in Lhasa. "It was in a back room, the office of the head honcho," says John Ackerly, spokesman for the group. A CITS spokesperson in Beijing denied the existence of the list...
...lawyers, Jane Sherburne and Mark Fabiani, and withheld from the public information about President Clinton's meetings with Riady. On advice of Bruce Lindsey, the President's aide and good friend, the meetings, which included discussions of foreign policy, were simply called "social calls." Clinton's spokesman, Michael McCurry, has since acknowledged that "social calls" was inaccurate...