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Dole has also begun to tighten his belt. Several of the campaign's top financiers were angry to learn at a Washington meeting earlier this month that the campaign had raised a respectable $8 million but had already spent $4 million. "Dole has 100% name identification," cracked a financier who attended, "but now he wants 150%." Partly in response, Dole will cut back on travel and polling this summer...
...theater," lamented William Webster, former head of the fbi and a member of the White House security review committee that recommended closing Pennsylvania Avenue as well as a dozen other measures to tighten protection. Angry people seeking notoriety of all degrees find the stage they want at the White House. For years peaceful protesters have sometimes camped across from the White House, but the rising stridency of the disaffected and the real terrorism in the U.S. have changed the environment...
Prosecutors continued to tighten the web of inculpatory DNA evidence that they have been trying to weave around O.J. Simpson. State forensic expert Gary Sims testified about a second set of DNA tests conducted on blood found at the crime scene, in Simpson's Bronco and on the glove and socks discovered at Simpson's estate. Some samples, Sims said, matched Simpson's blood, others the blood of the victims, and still others that of all three. The defense again insinuated its scenario of tainted samples...
...title game was undecided until the final minutes. The teams traded goals throughout regulation, with neither squad opening up a larger bulge than Brown's 5-3 lead late in the second period. And even this lead was shortlived, with the Crimson scoring just 17 seconds later to tighten things back...
Cuban negotiators began their third round of "migration" talks with U.S. officials in New York today amid worries that Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms' efforts to tighten a U.S. embargo could spark a new boatlift. But lead Cuban negotiator Ricardo Alarcon, at a meeting with TIME editors, flatly denied that Havana had threatened to encourage would-be refugees: "We haven't made the threat, Helms has made the threat." Even so, Alarcon said passage of a pending Helms bill -- a measure to punish foreigners doing business with Cuba -- could unleash "huge waves of rafters." He also attacked...