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Hanselman has proposed calling a special session of the council committees on the night of officer elections; usually committee do not meet until the following week. This will allow the council to jump-start the agenda seating process, he said...
Secretary of State Warren Christopher headed home today after a week of trying to accelerate the peace process in the Middle East, having failed to jump-start negotiations between Israel and Syria. After a three-hour meeting with Syrian President Hafez Assad, Christopher said the two Mideast countries are still deadlocked over the Golan Heights, which Israel captured in the 1967 Six-Day War. Assad, more vaguely, said he was open to "discuss steps" that might help advance Christoper's aims when the American returns there in early August...
...this is no time for bravado. In an attempt to jump-start a stalled legislative process, the President last week indicated to key Senators that he might be willing to accept a much slower transition to universal coverage than he had originally proposed. And instead of requiring all employers to provide health insurance to workers by 1998, Clinton added, they could be merely encouraged to do so for a few years. If universal coverage didn't result, he suggested, his so-called employer mandates would finally kick in. "I made clear," the President later said, "that I was very flexible...
...bipartisan group of Senators drafted a health-care compromise plan that could jump-start the Clinton reform effort. Rhode Island Republican John Chafee and other Senators stopped short of key Clinton goals -- including the disputed employer mandate that would require businesses to foot most of the bill. But the group proposed insurance reforms and market strategies to insure most Americans. And what if the new proposal doesn't work? Its sponsors say that if 95 percent of Americans don't have health insurance by 2002, a special commission will decide how to boost the number, followed by a congressional vote...
...Supreme Court decision that ruled it unconstitutional to limit the amount of money a citizen can give to his or her own campaign. Of course, you can't use Buckley effectively unless you're wealthy. Says veteran G.O.P. consultant Eddie Mahe: "Other things being equal, a challenger who cannot jump-start his own campaign might as well forget...