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Already feeling the government's hands around their throat, tobacco-industry leaders took immediate steps to thwart Clinton's plan. The five largest cigarette manufacturers filed a lawsuit claiming that the FDA has no jurisdiction over cigarettes and that the advertising restrictions violate their First Amendment rights. But Clinton has tried to entice the tobacco companies into backing a law that would directly impose the restrictions he seeks. California Democrat Henry Waxman, the leading antismoking figure in the House, predicts that the new Republican majority might pass these reforms rather than let their nemesis, the FDA, regulate the industry...
...asthma in the first place. Friends say that for at least a year before her death, she would occasionally complain of being short of breath. Taylor had seen her family physician as recently as May, but he had treated her for what he apparently believed was a severe sore throat and bronchitis, not asthma...
...marked the beginning of an upsurge for his slow-moving presidential campaign. Though Wilson serves as president of the 26-member board, until last week he had not attended a regular meeting since 1992. But after he had been kept offstage for much of the summer by throat surgery, he won national attention with his high profile in the regents' vote. With polls showing that two-thirds of Californians and a growing majority of Americans oppose quotas, that could bring Wilson the political equivalent of brand-name identification as an opponent of affirmative action. ''The Governor got his victory...
...Nicole Brown Simpson in the manner the prosecution has proposed, according to his doctor, Robert Huizenga. Though Huizenga had described the ex-football star as a physical wreck, he nonetheless conceded that Simpson could have pulled back Nicole Brown Simpson's head with his left hand and slit her throat with his right. As the defense began its second week, testimony also focused on Simpson's cut finger, which the defense maintains was injured when the defendant broke a drinking glass in his Chicago hotel room upon learning of his ex-wife's death. A principal challenge still looms...
...Grady's survival and ultimate rescue are a cool drink of water for the parched throat of American patriotism. Julie Bess Kuk West Burke, Vermont...