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...dismal seasons of both teams have reduced interest in this year's showdown, but there is no question for fans that their school must win The Game...
...growing twice as fast as ours, and its `standing army,' whose exact size is hard to pin down, surely dwarfs our volunteer force. The United States hasn't negotiated nuclear arms reductions with China the way it has with the former Soviet Union. In a conventional or nuclear showdown, the United States' only military advantage could be technology...
...showdown thus escalated what were for Clinton already immensely high stakes. The President initially was slow to put on much of a drive for NAFTA, which was originally negotiated by George Bush. He let the debate be dominated by Perot and others, principally labor unions who fear a loss of jobs to low- wage Mexican competition. But now the President has made the NAFTA vote one of the defining moments of his Administration and launched an all-out campaign to win. He is opposed by one of the strangest assortments of public figures ever to find themselves in one another...
Backpedaling on a pledge, Boris Yeltsin told a group of Russian newspaper editors that he opposed holding early presidential elections in June 1994. A senior Yeltsin aide, Sergei Filatov, argued that the promise was void because it had been made under duress during a showdown with hard-liners. Earlier in the week Yeltsin rewarded the Russian army for its support by, among other things, removing a limit on the number of its troops...
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