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...trillion in spending cuts, including sizable bites out of Medicare and Medicaid (but far smaller than the G.O.P.'s); and targeted middle-class tax cuts, especially for families saddled with college costs (also smaller than the G.O.P.'s tax breaks). Jubilant Republican leaders cheered the President's political turnabout, then carped that his plan fell short. Congressional Democrats, many of whom have struggled to fight the cuts-and score valuable political points in the process -- were decidedly not pleased...
...Judge Lance Ito okays the motion it would move up the trial significantly from the earlier March estimate. The Simpson team said that a "separate, time-consuming" -- and undoubtedly much-publicized -- pretrial hearing would bias the sitting jury and thereby violate Simpson's rights. It represents a complete turnabout in the strategy adopted so far of hurling every roadblock -- including the Kelly-Frye proceeding -- to keep the DNA evidence out of court. Still, says TIME Los Angeles reporter Elaine Lafferty, it isn't a complete capitulation by the defense on the DNA issue. "This might be a legal strategy...
...official circles, Western Europe was delighted at Washington's apparent decision to drop the calls for bombing the Serbs that had so riled Paris and London. Some news accounts crowed that the turnabout marked Europe's first success in calling the tune on a major alliance policy. But how successful is the European line? U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali got a faceful of answers last week as he flew into Sarajevo demanding cease-fires. He left empty-handed amid jeers and snubs, underscoring how low the U.N. stands in Bosnian public opinion. Radovan Karadzic, head of the rebel Serb...
...Panetta speaks as if all the parties were equal, as if the victim were as responsible for the war as the aggressor. Defense Secretary William Perry joined the chorus, saying that the Serbs had already won--this only a week after the Bosnian force gained ground. Seeing the American turnabout, negotiators are now revising peace proposals to ward the Serbs even more land. After all, with the U.S. now on the side of appeasement rather than the side of the Bosnians, there can be little hope that help will arrive from the outside. The Bosnians have no one left...
...harm. Finally, last month, the beleaguered Ramoses filed a federal civil-rights suit demanding $10 million in damages. Instead, U.S. District Court Judge Ann Williams authorized an unprecedented settlement agreement, to be signed this week, under which the Krafts will vacate their home within 180 days. In a delicious turnabout from the normal course of events -- usually it is the minority family that is forced out by racial harassment -- the harassers will be ousted from the neighborhood. Judge Williams' action sends a signal, says Elizabeth Shuman- Moore of the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, that "if you hold bigoted...