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...still far too early for the U.S. to draw firm conclusions about Rafsanjani. Virtually everything in the region is so riddled with confusion that no one last week could say for sure whether Higgins was executed on Monday, as his captors claimed, or months ago and the tape of his execution saved for use at a later, advantageous moment. It was not even certain that it was Higgins whose body was shown in the tape. Forensic experts at the FBI were carefully measuring and comparing the features of the man in the videotape with photographs of the captured Marine...
There is little support in the Pentagon for a military response this time. "What are we supposed to hit?" an admiral asked last week. For the most part, the group has no major command centers outside heavily populated districts, where an American strike would be sure to result in many civilian casualties...
...sales tax to underwrite the package. Determined to carry through with his program, the Governor has been touring the state's small, backwoods communities since March to reignite enthusiasm for education reform and solicit support for the taxes to fund it. Says Clinton: "We need to make sure people know what the gains were...
...operator when Fruehauf shuttered its Fort Wayne, Ind., trailer plant in 1987. Yoder, who is married with a 17-month-old son, now earns about a third less than the $11.47 hourly wage he was paid at Fruehauf and receives no health insurance from his present employer. Says he: "Sure, I got another job, but I can't save a dime. We wanted to have another baby, but we can't afford it. I didn't know what an LBO was until a couple of years ago. They said that a lot of people got rich. Well, I wasn...
...this rate. The House measure, proposed by Georgia Democrat Ed Jenkins, would cut capital-gains taxes to 20% on investments held at least a year. But the cut would be short-lived; in two years the rate would return to 28% with indexing for inflation. Investors would be sure to roll over their assets and produce a quick windfall for the Treasury -- at the expense of future tax collections. House Speaker Tom Foley calls it "robbing from future generations." Lawrence Summers, a Harvard public-finance expert, calls it "probably the worst tax proposal in the history of the Republic...