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...grabbed the silver release ripcord--a Dshaped handle about belly level on my left harness strap--and pulled down as I screamed, "Pull!" I threw it away from me--using both arms--then went into the hard arch position: pelvis thrust out, arms, legs and head thrown back, and started counting again...
...Their voices will be heard," he pledged. "I am the Prime Minister for all this country, and I will never forget that." Secure but no longer impregnable in Parliament, Major and his Conservatives need quickly to address the serious discontent registered at the ballot box. Britons may not have thrown the bums out, as anti-incumbent forces have been urging elsewhere, but they gave the government a formidable scare...
...RATE THEY'RE FLEEING CAPITOL HILL, LAWmakers may make the term-limits movement obsolete. Already, 47 members have said they will quit the House at the end of this term, and 11 have been thrown out in primary elections; the exodus is the largest since 49 House members left voluntarily in 1978. A few say they are leaving because recent scandals have driven public regard for Congress to a new low. Throw in the effects of redistricting, and up to one- third of the 435 House members may be newcomers in November...
...coddling" of China's aging leaders after the Tiananmen Square massacre is "unconscionable. There was a case for looking the other way when we needed China as a counterweight to Moscow," says Clinton. "But there's no need to play the China card now when our opponents have thrown in their hand, no need to ignore China's spreading dangerous weapons technologies and its trampling of human rights. I would deny most- favored-natio n status to China, impose trade sanctions and encourage the younger generation's democratic aspirations. They'll triumph someday, and we want to be seen...
...YORK--Image is a decisive vote-getting factor in the Empire State, and the "victory parties" thrown last night affirmed the perceived reputations of both "Slick Willie" Clinton and Edmund G. "Moonbeam" Brown...