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...resolution, 315 to 103, recommending that the President not send American troops to Bosnia, a commitment demanded by the Bosnians, Croats and Serbs as a condition for peace. Special U.S envoy Richard Holbrooke, who has masterminded a temporary peace and orchestrated the Dayton meeting, was furious at the eleventh-hour interference. He told reporters yesterday that it "greviously interferes with the negotiating process of peace. Any member of the Congress who supports that kind of resolution on the eve of an historic and important negotiation is doing grave damage to the national interests...
...ride on your airplane, don't send me a ticket after the plane takes off." The Rev. Henry J. Lyons, of the 8.2 million-member National Baptist Convention, informed his group that to march would be "a violation of the Word of God." Last Tuesday Farrakhan struck an eleventh-hour deal with 20 influential Protestant ministers. They wouldn't endorse the march, but most agreed to stop criticizing...
...sought to dilute the committee's charges. "I am accused of kissing women," he said. "Not drugging, not robbing. Kissing." That in vited McConnell to respond, "These were not merely stolen kisses" but rather "physical coercion" directed primarily at women who depended on Packwood for their livelihood. Packwood's eleventh-hour demand for public hearings also earned the contempt of the panel, which noted he had waived his right to request a public airing and opposed Boxer's campaign to force the hearings. "The one who deliberately abused the process now wants to manipulate it to his advantage," said McConnell...
...Kuijp, who will turn 43 in September, is known for his monograph, Contributions to the Development of Tibetan Buddhist Epistemology from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries...
...Despite eleventh-hour efforts to withhold its class gift in protest of a lack of female faculty at the University, the Radcliffe Class of 1960 was unable to prevent Harvard from receiving the money...