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...FRANCISCO: Hoping to build support among gay voters, President Clinton says he will request an extra $65 million for AIDS drug assistance programs administered by the states, nearly doubling the current level of funding. White House officials said that the programs, which receive two-thirds of their funds from the federal government, are helping some 69,000 poor people who have the HIV virus. TIME White House correspondent J.F.O. McAllister reports that this will allay some of the complaints from AIDS activists, who believe there has been more talk than action on such assistance. "This is not a continuation...
...part of its deal with PBHA, the administration acceded to the public service group's request to allow non-students--including faculty, administrators and community service leaders--to serve as voting members of its board of trustees...
Students objected to the University's reluctance to increase the number of students on the committee to five and to allow students to choose who would represent them, a request initiated by the Undergraduate Council...
...late Vince Foster, for example, when Livingstone himself testified that he'd never met Foster.) Last week William Clinger sent an outraged letter to Clinton suggesting that George Stephanopoulos had been responsible for the hire. As evidence, he pointed to a 1994 letter from Livingstone to Stephanopoulos that requested that Livingstone be considered for a job as director of the White House Military Office, the outfit that looks after the President's nuclear "football." Clinger said this proved that Livingstone and Stephanopoulos had a "close personal relationship." Clinger, however, chose not to release a note passed between Stephanopoulos...
...American team wanted Clinton to call Yeltsin to urge that he appear in his ads. The request reached Clinton--that much is known--but no one will say whether the call was made. Yet it was not long before Yeltsin finally appeared on the tube. That was the good news--the bad news was that the spot was awful. With all three of the American principals out of the country (the only time that happened during their employment), Video International dealt with Yeltsin on its own. Gorton had written several memos detailing how the shoot should proceed. Yeltsin, he said...