The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS Spring snow, rushing rivers, and a guarded Mr. Abdul-Rauf March came in like a lion who stayed, dumping snow and ice and rain and sleet from Montana to Nebraska to Indiana to...
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...For the 213th year in a row, the swallows chose March 19 to return to the San Juan Capistrano Mission, not allowing the leap year to disrupt their timing nor the presence of 20,000 gawkers to abort their landings...
...It's the latest Clinton stretch: to contend that tobacco-tainted Starr cannot be fair to occupants of a no-smoking White House...
...Sam Gibbons announced his retirement, after only seventeen terms in the House...
...She has already renounced her right to be called "Her Royal Highness," and rightly so: a list of her annual expenditures covered by the prince included not only $150,000 for clothes and nearly $50,000 on hair coloring and other beauty essentials, but $12,000 on "alternative therapies like colonic irrigation and aromatherapy," a reminder indeed of just how common she is...
...David Hale, the most credible figure yet to emerge in the White-water affair, was rewarded for his forthrightness with a 28-month sentence and a restitution order of some $2 million...
...In a bit of rhetorical bravura on March 26, he declared that "the battle for America's future is beginning tonight...
...at their usual pace, most recently the 44-foot whale that washed ashore dead on Cape Cod early in the month...
...In Denver, Colorado, a speech on river conservation by Vice President Gore was accompanied by the roaring rush of waters from the South Platte River-92 million gallons' worth specially released for the occasion...
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...Was this the same McDougal who shortly thereafter was seen downtown most every night, dining with his 25-year-old girlfriend...
...The Clinton folks can't keep the Chinese from closing the Taiwan Straits, but they can move rivers...
...George Burns, the merry widower, died on March q. He was loo, and any day now Richard Cohen will write that he died of cigar-smoke inhalation...
...President Bill, in any event, was a few steps ahead of him...
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...Senator Bob Dole won every primary he entered, much to the dismay of at least half of those who voted for him...
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...Webb Hubbell, by contrast, got off with only zi months and a much smaller fine —but then he didn't really cooperate, and he's a much bigger fish than Hale, by at least izo lbs...
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...No one much cared until he explained that he does so because he regards the star-spangled banner as a symbol of oppression and tyranny, whereupon every columnist and editorialist worthy of a Columbia School of Journalism degree rallied to his side...
...On March 24 he gave his own glimpse of the future, or at least a future when we have an all-woman military, dispatching his legal wife and one-and-only child into the Bosnian war zone while he stayed out of harm's way and celebrated with 36 holes of golf...
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...The vice president denied any role in planning the diversion...
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...Nearly joining the recently deceased—or so it seemed was Arkansas raconteur James McDougal, who just about collapsed during his trial at the federal court house in Little Rock, and in a touching scene had to be helped from the court room, cane in hand, by his former wife, Susan...
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...The goal was to replenish endangered warmwater fish such as the humpback chub and razorback sucker, though one can only wonder how many species of reptile and insect were wiped out by the surging whitewater...
...Of course, in coming out for Forbes he stressed he wasn't opposing Bob Dole—and right after the vote offered to act as a bridge to the Dole camp...
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...Dionne, Jr., trying to impress Lloyd Grove, though if these names mean nothing to you, count yourself blessed...
...For a minefield closer to home, the Clintons could have chosen Waterford, Virginia, where under an old oak tree on his family's property 12-year-old Brian Rickert found the perfect item for show-and-tell: a 12-pound Parrott shell of Civil War vintage...
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...Jack Kemp fulfilled a promise and endorsed Steve Forbes...
...In Washington, former Ohio congressman, Buz Lukens was convicted on bribery charges over a payment of $15,000 which he thought was being given to him as an act of charity...
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...Naturally the only thing he will be remembered for is that he allegedly cried in public during the 1972 Democratic primary campaign...
...The first day of spring was duly canceled, everywhere that is, except California, where it is traditionally observed on December 21...
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...In London, England, Great Britain, United Kingdom, despite all the recent IRA-sponsored unpleasantness, negotiations moved ahead in the historic divorce proceedings involving Prince Charles, 47, who remains a strong contender for the British throne, and his estranged wife, Diana, the Princess of Wales, who is 34...
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...Cooler heads prevailed, Loudoun County officials disposed of the projectile, and young Brian received an incomplete in his show-and-tell studies...
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...Paul Pink, a founder of Pinks, a hot dog stand that catered to the stars, died at 87...
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