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...Even with much of the world behind him, Boutros Boutros-Ghali's chances of winning another term as U.N. Secretary General are receding. France, China and Russia, members of the powerful Security Council, strongly support Boutros-Ghali, but the U.S. confirmed Thursday that it would use its Council veto if the Egyptian were re-elected. Seeking to soften the blow, the Clinton Administration had offered Boutros-Ghali a one-year extension of his term. The Secretretary General turned it down. "The Clinton Administration feels that Boutros-Ghali has not done a good job reorganizing and streamlining the organization," says TIME...
...likes to say when asked if he will run for President again. As he tells it, his effort to establish a national Reform Party is about creating a vehicle to take the country to the promised land of balanced budgets, clean politics and democracy so pure that voters could veto tax hikes by referendum. Who would drive this bus to Utopia? Well, Perot has been scouting for someone he describes as "George Washington II." For months no one volunteered for that role. But now Richard Lamm, former Democratic Governor of Colorado, is auditioning, and Perot must decide whether to treat...
...should require either the sale of certain Time Warner or Turner assets or other major changes in the deal, then the merger could be in trouble--in no small part because Tele-Communications Inc., the nation's largest cable operator and an important Turner shareholder, retains the right to veto any changes it deems not in its own interests...
...vetoing the bill, Clinton has, in essence, deemed acceptable a form of infanticide. Although evidenced by broad bi-partisan support throughout Congress for the ban, Clinton has taken it upon himself to ignore the sentiment of the American people. Though Clinton claimed that the reason for his veto was "to save a woman's life or to avert serious health consequences to her," he neglected to mention that the bill had a provision which provided for an exception to the ban if the abortion was "necessary to save the life of a mother whose life was in danger...
...Harvard Republican Club call upon all students who deem this action by President Clinton irresponsible and inconsistent with the best interests of the American people to contact your representatives or senators immediately in order to show your outrage with the President's veto. --Jay M. Dickerson '98 President of the Harvard Republican Club