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...Clinton's way either. The $30 billion anticrime bill -- supposed to pass in April -- is hung up again, largely once more by divisions among Democrats. Liberals and blacks in the House have added a provision designed to promote racial equality in administering the death penalty that even sympathetic Senators warn cannot get through the upper chamber, because it looks to Republicans like a backhanded attempt to do away with capital punishment altogether. The White House has been unable to figure out how to raise the $12 billion it thinks will be needed to finance a new world-trade treaty...
...drug lords. In 1989 he was shot 14 times by hitmen for drug lords in a Bogota airport ambush, but miraculously survived. For all that, allegations he and his party were accepting money from the narco-barons were so persistent that last October Gelbard traveled to Bogota to warn Samper to stay clear of their money or risk damaging U.S.-Colombia relations should he be elected...
Women are most in danger when they seek to put a firm end to an abusive relationship. Experts warn that the two actions most likely to trigger deadly assault are moving out of a shared residence and beginning a relationship with another man. "There aren't many issues that arouse greater passion than infidelity and abandonment," says Dr. Park Dietz, a forensic psychiatrist who is a leading expert on homicide...
...Cold-War tensions and help further defuse a U.S.-North Korea standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear-weapons program. Already, though, signs are emerging of potential irritation between the two Koreas: the North refuses to discuss a second confab, which the Southerners hope to hold in Seoul. Longtime Korea watchers warn that hopeful signs of impending summits have been dashed before...
...Gulf War allies are eager to win contracts to help rebuild Iraq and want the U.N. to lift sanctions against Baghdad so it can resume exporting oil. But PRESIDENT CLINTON opposes the move -- and not just because Iraq remains a threat. If Iraq starts exporting oil, Administration energy experts warn, the price for crude could fall by nearly half, to $11 per bbl. That would spell trouble for volatile and financially strapped oil exporters such as Russia and Saudi Arabia -- and for 60 oil-patch lawmakers, who begged Clinton for new tax breaks in a White House meeting last week...