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...matter how much progress ACT-UP made, nothing moved fast enough for Rafsky. He soon became a hero of the cause. He worked his way onto 60 Minutes, where CBS reporter Ed Bradley followed him into a ACT-UP protest at a Japanese pharmaceuticals plant in Fort Lee, New Jersey...
...contrast to the USAir agreement, the Continental deal is unlikely to touch off much controversy. For one thing, the Canadian market is not as hotly pursued as the destinations involved in other evolving partnerships. Air Canada and Air Partners, the Fort Worth-based investment group participating in the deal, will split their stake, each taking 27.5% ownership in Continental. American Airlines chief Crandall praised the Continental agreement last week as "a good, fair, free-trade-based, cross-border investment deal." Having satisfied Continental's creditors, the deal must now win the approval of the U.S. bankruptcy court overseeing the Houston...
...Shoshoni-Bannock people of the Fort Hall reservation in Idaho secured their right to use 581,000 acre-feet of water flowing through the Snake River under an 1868 treaty. The tribe will use the water for farming and sell any excess...
...BAND OF SETTLERS LEFT ILLInois for California. They ended up stranded in the Sierra Nevada at the outset of the worst winter ever recorded there. By the time the starving survivors straggled into Sutter's Fort, THE DONNER PARTY had written one of the darkest chapters in American history, a tale of humans reduced to the most desperate circumstances -- including, famously, cannibalism. For this PBS documentary, Ric Burns, a co-producer with his brother Ken of The Civil War, uses the same techniques as that series -- archival photographs, readings from diaries and letters -- to re-create the story with harrowing...
...vote for socialism." Rush has been on Slick Willie's case all year, rejoicing in the early tales of infidelity, assiduously promoting this month's mission-to- Moscow story. He loves to rag Democratic politicians: Ted Kennedy, of course, but also "former U.S. cadaver -- ahem, Senator -- Alan Cranston" or "Fort Worthless Jim Wright, the former Sleazer of the House." What about Perot's 50 cents gas tax? "We could've gone ahead and let Saddam Hussein win and accomplished the same thing...