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...invasion's first hours, Marines would seal the capital's port and perhaps take control of Cap Haitien, a major town on the country's northern coast. Pentagon officials would be nervously watching to see if Haitians threatened Americans there and in the seaside towns of Port Salut and Jeremie. In fact, Pentagon officials say they may seek White House approval for a pre- invasion incursion to evacuate all Americans who want to leave Haiti; they would be picked up at preselected rendezvous points. Such a ploy could have an added bonus: by showing that the Americans are serious...
...economic embargo has hurt as well. There is no electricity along most of the northern coast, even in major towns like Cap Haitien. At night women sell their wares by the light of kerosene lanterns and candles. Because most Haitians are now so poor that they cannot even afford the batteries for their transistor radios, few actually heard the brief Creole-language spots aired last week by the American embassy on local radio, which warned listeners that "the U.S. is not a land with streets paved with gold...
...Clinton plan proposed a cap on total national health-care spending. The Dole bill has a "fail-safe" mechanism designed to ensure that the plan would not add to the federal deficit. House Education and Labor proposes regional limits on how fast insurance premiums can rise. House Ways and Means establishes a fee structure and offers a standby cost-containment section triggered when individual states exceed a targeted expenditure level, at which point a federal rate schedule is imposed. Senate Finance would call on its National Health Commission to make nonbinding recommendations if costs got out of hand...
...attorney Robert Shapiro immediately mounted an aggressive defense, asking that key pieces of evidence be suppressed because, he claimed, they were improperly seized by police. Prosecutors obtained judicial permission to get 40 to 100 hairs from Simpson in order to compare them scientifically with strands found in a cap at the murder scene, and a Los Angeles store employee testified that he sold a 15-in. knife to Simpson in May. No murder weapon has yet been found by police. On Friday, the defense turned over a new piece of evidence in a sealed mystery envelopeleading to intensive nationwide speculation...
Elke Baca, 28, a former welfare mother in Denver who now works as a telephone installer, doubts the cap would make much difference. "They're not having babies for the money in the first place," she says. She has more faith in the work requirements: "Give them a limit, then cut them off. That's what I'd do. That ought to be enough motivation...