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...competition was stiff in the Harvard Women's Tennis Invitational, held Friday through yesterday at the Beren Tennis Center and the Palmer Dixon Courts, but the Crimson managed to hold...
Croatian forces are withdrawing from around the Bosnian Serb stronghold of Banja Luka after meeting stiff resistance. Wednesday, Serb President Slobodan Milosevic apparently sent 1,000 paramilitary troops under Zeljko Raznatovic, or "Arkan," to reinforce the city. The United States considers Arkan a possible war criminal, and says he's responsible for some of the worst atrocities in the Balkan war. "Arkan started out as a big-time bank robber in Europe years ago," reports TIME's Edward Barnes. "He would literally just walk in and point a gun at someone. Later he did political killings for the old Yugoslav...
CLINTON: A WORKING STIFF AGAIN...
Faced with stiff opposition from both the right and the left, Senate majority leader Bob Dole reluctantly put off action on the G.O.P. leadership's much touted welfare-reform plan (which has already passed the House). Conservative Republicans, including rival presidential aspirant Phil Gramm, are demanding tougher provisions penalizing unwed mothers, especially those who are teenagers. Democrats are insisting on more generous job-training and child-care provisions...
Competition in this f all's City Council election will be stiff as 20 Cambridge residents campaign completed nomination papers by the July 31 deadline for the nine available council seats...