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...throughout Democratic party ranks Thursday when the vice president broke with his administration over the issue, supporting legislation to make Elian a permanent resident of the U.S. and insisting that his future be decided as a custody case by a family court. Gore's announcement, which will almost certainly stiffen the resolve of Elian's Miami relatives to defy the INS demand that they sign a pledge to hand the boy over once they've exhausted their appeal process, appears designed to court Florida's Cuban-American voters, but may spark something of a backlash elsewhere. "It's difficult...
...pressure is mounting on Moscow to reach a political settlement and avert a humanitarian catastrophe in Chechnya. The issue is set to dominate next week's summit of the 54-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which will be attended by President Clinton. "Western pressure may actually stiffen the resolve of the generals to fight on," says Meier. "The last thing they want is to be seen to be caving into the West." But some in the military hierarchy are also wary of being caught in the potential quagmire of a guerrilla war in a Chechen winter...
...bombing campaign. Washington fears, with good reason, that Milosevic will have ample opportunity to subvert any undertakings to which he has signed on, while the U.S. will be unlikely to win agreement within NATO to resume the bombing in response. But even while the U.S. is looking to stiffen the peace terms for Milosevic, it may be even less willing to consider the unhappy ?- and divisive -? alternatives of simply continuing its air campaign or contemplating a ground war. "Plainly at this point everybody wants out of this war," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. Indeed, the peace talks are continuing...
...increase, which comes on the heels of a 13 percent rise in the number of early action acceptances--to 1,186--will stiffen competition for space in Harvard Yard for next year...
Exactly two decades ago as the knees stiffen, but a gnat's eyeblink in geologic time, a writer for the New Yorker hit on a notion for a Talk of the Town piece, one of those short, graceful, somewhat owlish essays that in those days were told with a royally editorial "we." John McPhee's excellent idea was to collar a geologist friend, visit the rock walls of a recent highway cut not far from Manhattan and relate what the newly naked stone told the geologist...