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...Pentagon buzz about a Monday invasion gained more credence today when Secretary of State Warren Christopher warned the move could come in "a matter of days." President Clinton canceled a Sunday political fund raiser in California that would have kept him away from the capital till dawn Monday. Defense Secretary William Perry, meanwhile, said an invasion "would be over in a matter of hours, at most a day or two." TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompson reports that according to Pentagon sources, the latest scheme has elite Navy SEALs doing the initial dirty work. U.S. war plans then call...
Airlines have begun to cater specifically to the itinerant bargain hunters. Between October and March, Northwest Airlines offered a "Shop Till You Drop" tour that flew Britons and Japanese to the Mall of America in Bloomington, ) Minnesota, a 4.2 million-sq.-ft. behemoth with 420 stores. On the plan for the Britons, single-minded consumers boarded a plane in London late Friday afternoon, got to Minneapolis Saturday morning, shopped all day and arrived back in London early Sunday. "We compared a dozen items -- perfumes, blue jeans, fancy stationery items like Montblanc pens -- bought at the Mall of America to what...
...Democrats have agreed to a 10 percent cut in the $33 billion dollar tab on the bill. The snag? Republicans want the cuts concentrated on prevention programs; the Dems want an across the board reduction, Johnson says. If this issue proves to be problematic, the vote could be delayed till early next week, Johnson says...
...House of Representatives' health care debate, which was expected to wrap up by Friday, is now on hold till next month so the members can try to salvage the crime bill. Majority Leader Richard Gephardt said the health care debate will begin by Sept. 8 at the latest, when they return from a held-over summer recess. The scheduling may leave Democrats in the soup: the longer the bill is delayed, the harder it will be to enact reforms considered essential to Democratic prospects in November's congressional elections...
...modern light water nuclear reactor -- the kind that doesn't produce wastes that can be used in nuclear weapons -- if the North proved it was not making atomic arms. Those are the rough terms of the agreement that North Korean and U.S. negotiators reached Saturday before adjourning talks till September. A point of tension: The North, which hasn't responded to the overture, rejected a Southern proposal for Red Cross talks on reuniting 10 million family members separated since the Korean...