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...Little Rock. But as associate White House counsel, he has shown mainly a talent for getting in trouble. He drew a reprimand from the White House last summer for appearing to make political use of the FBI by calling in the G-men to investigate the White House travel office. He has been taking heavy flak for the strange anomaly of a White House staff peopled largely by aides whose legal right to roam its corridors is questionable. A third of the 1,044 employees have never received permanent passes attesting that they have passed security clearances -- largely, higher officials...
Patsy Thomasson, once Arkansas highway commissioner and now director of the White House Office of Administration, has also managed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Like Kennedy, she was involved in the travel-office affair. A Little Rock investment group she headed has been caught up in a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into a run-up in the price of the stock of a fisheries company just before it was acquired by Tyson Foods of Arkansas; Thomasson says she did no trading in the shares...
...resistance of a Mercedes with the spunkiness of the famous wristwatch. Plans call for the Swatchmobile to be 20% smaller than a typical subcompact, able to wheel into a parking space sideways, cost about $10,000 and reach 90 miles an hour. The car's designers hope it will travel at least 80 miles on a gallon of fuel, thanks to an engine one-tenth the weight of any existing engine with equal power. Models will run on gasoline, electric power or a combination of both...
...momentum." He referred not only to the negotiations but also to the U.N.-brokered arrangement to open roads and bridges in Sarajevo beginning this week. The deal is wrapped tightly in cumbersome conditions. Both the Bosnian government and the Serbs encircling Sarajevo will have to approve -- or veto -- each traveler's plans in advance. Vehicles must have a U.N. escort. Military movement on the roads is banned and so are commercial trucks, leaving the city still dependent on U.N. humanitarian shipments. Still, it does provide the first chance in almost two years for ordinary Sarajevans to leave the city...
...alley in Delhi's Sadar Bazaar. In one cluster of squalid apartments, the TRAFFIC sting operation discovered more than a dozen families engaged in the illicit wildlife trade. There the once magnificent animals are skinned, their prized parts dried and packaged, and their bones cleaned and bleached. The skins travel west, often ending up in the homes of wealthy Arabs, while the bones make their way to the east, frequently on the backs of Tibetans who ferry the contraband across mountainous, sparsely populated terrain to the Chinese border...