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...use of the word "recommend" is not accidental. Clinton's decision is an imposition to the people of Puerto Rico because it will mean that bombing in Vieques will occur for the next five years. But to the Navy it is only a recommendation that any following U.S. President can disregard, because following presidents will not be bound by Friday's decision. The end of this five-year time period will coincide with the next presidential election. Conservative Americans who fervently defend U.S. military interests will be able to exert much more pressure than Puerto Ricans, since...
...program, nearly $4 billion would flow to companies owned by minorities and women. Adopting a local-preferences program would not assure the same level of business for minority firms, he argues, because national companies could easily qualify by setting up Atlanta-based subsidiaries. Campbell says he is prepared to use "any means necessary" to protect the program in its current form--not only in the courts but also by picketing the homes of the Southeastern Legal Foundation's supporters and boycotting their companies. As for charges of cronyism, he notes that many of the wealthy black contractors who have contributed...
...chemicals that Russian investigators found in some of the blasts matches the brew mixed by bombers-in-training at his camp in Afghanistan. "There are some strings that connect here," a U.S. intelligence official tells TIME. "Some of the bombs in Russia were consistent with what Bin Laden bombers use...
...burly supporters, some of whom, he says proudly, he helped get out of jail. Morris, who makes more than $300,000 a year in salary and pensions, vows he will not quietly leave the union he built and ran for 54 years. He says he bought the weapons for use in strikes. But his critics--most of whom say they are afraid to be quoted by name--tell a different story. They say that Morris, who traces his roots and tactics back to the Molly Maguires, the fierce coal miners who waged violent battles against mineowners in the 1870s...
...want advice from one of its financial planners, that will cost you. "The tax return is really a blueprint for financial planning, and we want to provide financial-planning help," says H.D. Vest president Roger Ochs. The financial-planning firm expects more than 1 million people to use its free tax-filing service...