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...indeed was considering whether to cut off talks. One possible outcome is that Washington will suspend, but not terminate, the dialogue. That distinction may mean little: the new Israeli government promises to be even less receptive to Secretary of State James Baker's Mideast peace plan than was its predecessor...
...intent of willfully endangering the sleep habits and on-the-job efficiency of millions of innocent readers. Furthermore, it has been claimed that my client is remorseless. The government asserts that his new novel, The Burden of Proof, contains a plot even more fiendishly complicated and irresistible than its predecessor. The prosecution would have you believe that said novel, Exhibit B, constitutes an imminent threat to the public well-being and to the gross national product...
Much of the council's first months have been spent grappling with two problems left over by its predecessor-both dealing with the city's 20-year old system of rent control. While both were finally put to rest after long procedural battles, the council has had little time to discuss new rent control initiatives...
...while change has been slow to come, CCA backers still maintain that the new majority has vastly improved on its predecessor...
With a 94% turnout and 85% of the vote in elections last week, President-elect Ion Iliescu of Romania was almost in the same league as his predecessor, Nicolae Ceausescu, the Communist tyrant who posted similar landslides in pro forma balloting. But this was a free election, complete with opposition candidates and Western observers. That must have made Iliescu's victory all the sweeter, despite opposition allegations of ballot-box fraud, voter intimidation and media monopolization by his incumbent National Salvation Front...