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...President launched an all-out hard sell for his program last week with his TV appearance and meetings with business executives and legislators. The pace will pick up sharply this week: immediately after the speech to Congress, Cabinet members will fan out to radio and TV shows to plug the program, and some will be dispatched to their home state to begin grass-roots lobbying...
...there widespread agreement on how much to give. West Germans were shocked at the $100 billion annual tab for integrating their 16 million formerly communist kinsmen; even though eastern Germany can plug into a ready- made legal and commercial system, economic parity could take 20 years. A comparable effort for the former Soviet republics would cost $1.8 trillion a year...
...last week authorized a naval blockade to intercept sanction-busting vessels in the Adriatic Sea beginning on Tuesday this week. Bulgaria and Romania have started patrolling the Danube and inspecting suspicious cargoes. In addition, Bulgaria has banned petroleum exports to all former Yugoslav republics. "The sanctions regime won't plug all the loopholes," said a Western diplomat in Belgrade, "but things will begin to hurt very quickly...
Junior backer Meg Berte, a spark plug in Harvard's stellar defense, was selected for the second team...
...student vacations. On The McLaughlin Group, the Studs of weekend round-table shows, pundits pretend to be pit bulls. On the late-night talk shows opposite Limbaugh's, comedians pause in their mocking of Bush and Quayle to get serious for just a moment, folks, and put in a plug for Clinton...