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There's a battle in the Clinton Administration over how to deal with French oil giant TOTAL and its $2 billion natural-gas deal with Iran. National Security Council and White House political aides want to crack down on Total, using the law Congress passed last year requiring sanctions for foreign companies doing business with Iran. But European experts at the State Department prefer to waive the penalties if France promises to restrict other dealings with the rogue nation. They fear the dispute could escalate into a major trade war with Europe and Asia. "There's absolute unanimity...
...Cellucci has] proposed banning drinking on college campuses to crack down on minors drinking," according to Connolly. The governor advocates zero-tolerance with regard to underage drinking offenses, Connolly added...
Finally, the bill would aim to crack down on so-called "issue advocacy" television advertisements, which critics say highlight an issue built around particular candidates without falling under campaign financing restrictions...
...born in violence, blasted away from Earth by a collision with a planet-like object at least as big as Mars. To test this theory, a research team from Tokyo University and the University of Colorado, Boulder, developed a computer program that would simulate such a cosmic crack-up and let the scientists watch it play out. As the investigators predicted, the planet--roughly half the size of Earth--was annihilated by the collision, surrounding Earth with a Saturnesque ring of rubble that coalesced into a sphere. "We expected this," says Robin Canup, a Colorado research associate involved...
Conceivably, a grand jury could even crack the case. A Colorado law permits one spouse to testify against another in cases of child abuse that results in death or serious injury. But the right against self-incrimination would still apply. That raises the bizarre possibility that either John or Patsy Ramsey could be granted immunity and then confess to committing the murder--and could no longer be punished...