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Gingrich and his fellow leaders balked at the request late last week, calculating that it is riskier to rewrite the contract than simply to lose a vote on it. Besides, Gingrich knows that the prospects for tax cuts of any kind appear to be fading in the Senate. Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon returned from a weekend retreat with his Senate Finance Committee and pronounced tax cuts all but dead. "What all of us have discovered when we go home," he said, "is that the public, over and over, is saying to us, As between the two, we'd rather...
...Ameritech officials explained that they want to re-sell long-distance service provided by other companies. In turn, the firm would agree to make it easier for others to provide competing local phone service. This is the first time both AT&T and the government are backing such a request...
House Speaker Newt Gingrich is asking national television networks to give him a half hour of free air time for an April 7 speech to outlinehis post-"Contract" agenda. While CNN quickly said yes today, NBC, ABC and CBS have yet to respond to Gingrich's request for a prerogative traditionally reserved for presidents. "It's certainly symptomatic of his asserting himself as a national personality above and beyond the status most speakers have had," saysTIME Washington contributor Laurence Barrett, who noted that the air time could help Gingrich improve his image. The latest TIME poll shows Gingrich's "negatives...
...Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens today issued a highly unusual essay asking judges across the country to study whether executing prisoners who have spent long periods on death row violates the Constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Stevens made the request in a two-page supplement to the court's unanimous rejection of Texas killer Clarence Allen Lackey's death penalty appeal. Lackey's attorney argued that executing him after 17 years on death row amounted tocruel and unusual punishment, in part because his prolonged imprisonment had eliminated the possibility that executing him would accomplish retribution or serve...
Judge Lance Ito granted prosecutor Marcia Clark's unusual request for permission to treatBrian "Kato" Kaelinas a "hostile," allowing her to attack her own prosecution's star witness. Under Clark's aggressive questioning, the former Simpson houseguest admitted thatO.J.was upset in the hours before his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman, were murdered on June 12. Earlier, he had said that Simpson appeared "normal" that night. Kaelin said Simpson was also "a little bit upset" because while he had wanted to spend time with his daughter Sydney after her music recital that day, Nicole Simpson...