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...pomp and circumstance, and everyone talked about reforms that have to be made," reports Marguerite Michaels from the United Nations, where three days of 50th anniversary celebrations concluded Tuesday night. Delegates unanimously adopted a painstakingly worded declaration that called for reforming the powerful Security Council, and (in a swipe at the U.S.) demanded that members pay their bills "in full and on time." Michaels notes that several reforms actually may take place in the near future. "Peacekeeping will change -- the U.N will return to its previous role of going into a country only when there is a peace to keep...
...Williams for failing to clean up the L.A.P.D.--the job he was expressly hired to do after Rodney King. It's Clinton, not the Attorney General, who should promise a thorough investigation of Mark Fuhrman and his boasts of police mistreatment of blacks. It is the President who should swipe at the "code of silence" too many cops embrace when their colleagues are guilty of excess. Above all, it is Clinton who needs to say what we all know--that minority Americans are too often the victims of police misconduct and that the misuse of public power diminishes everyone...
...common room is in the basement of Greenough. Card keys are required to get into the dorm, and again to gain access to the hallways, but a second card swipe is not required to get into the basement...
...first major swipe at Bob Dole, Pete Wilson today declared the GOP frontrunner soft on welfare reform. "The compromises being cut in the Senate raise serious doubts as to whether the Senate Republican leader really understands the mandate the voters gave us last November to make dramatic change," Wilson told the Heritage Foundation in Washington. Los Angeles bureau chief Jordan Bonfante says it's the opening gambit in the California governor's plan to "portray himself as taking action as governor on these very issues that Dole is just talking about and compromising on in the Senate. Wilson wants...
With those weak points in mind, Bill Clinton took a swipe at Dole last week at a town meeting in Billings, Montana. Without mentioning the Senator by name, Clinton observed pointedly that "there are some public officials in our country who are only too happy to criticize the culture of violence being promoted by the media but are stone-cold silent when these other folks are talking and making violence seem...