Lawmakers target corporate welfare in bipartisan push
Liberal and conservative lawmakers unite on Capitol Hill to curb subsidies and tax loopholes, proposing a nine member commission to force votes on the "Terrible Twelve" programs and corporate tax breaks, aiming for immediate cuts and long term reform amid fierce lobbyist opposition.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Stop Corporate Welfare Coalition
House Budget Committee
John Kasich
Ohio
Americans For Tax Reform
National Taxpayers Union
Friends of the Earth
Joe Nader
Public Citizen
Eft
House
Senate
Congress
Military closes gender gap in fitness standards across services
Washington AP reports updated rules end large gaps between male and female fitness tests. Marines now run three miles with similar scoring. sit-ups and push-ups have been equalized or adjusted. Army Navy Air Force and others adopt comparable benchmarks to boost morale and aid recruitment as women rise to 13.2 percent of active duty.
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Washington
Marine Corps
Karen Imhoff
Army
Navy
Air Force
Clinton says White House not for sale in fund-raising row
President Clinton conceded mistakes in White House fund-raising for his re election but insisted the administration was not for sale to big donors. He defended donor meetings as proper while announcing cooperation with a Senate probe. He acknowledged it may have been wrong for banking regulators to meet bankers at a fundraiser last May.
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Washington
Clinton
White House
Treasury
Robert Rubin
Mr. Clinton
Senate
Fred Thompson
East Room
Routier murder trial grips Texas home scene
Darlie Routier, badly injured, faces capital murder charges after her two young sons died from stab wounds at the family home in Rowlett. Police say she killed them, then harmed herself to mislead investigators as the case heads to trial.
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Rowlett
Texas
Darlie Routier
Darlie
Mrs. Routier
IRS ruling delays tax change favoring farmers
The IRS agreed to postpone enforcing a ruling that bars farmers from using commodity contracts to defer income, delaying impact after a year of strong crops and high prices in 1996. Congress will draft changes to the 1986 law, with IRS Commissioner Margaret Milner Richardson urging farmers to file as before.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Iowa
Congress
Margaret Milner Richardson
Lenin's tomb to close for two months for restoration
Lenin's embalmed body in Moscow's Red Square mausoleum will be taken down for a yearly restoration. Yuri Denisov, director of the Institute for Biological Structures, says two months of prophylactic work keeps the body reliably intact.
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Moscow
Lenin
Red Square
Vladimir Lyich Lenin
Soviet Union
Moscow Times
Yuri Denisov
Institute For Biological Structures
Simpson civil case heads to jury deliberations
In Santa Monica, a civil trial over Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman’s deaths moved to jury deliberations at 2:26 p.m. after closing arguments. Plaintiff lawyer Daniel Petrocelli waved bills to mock the $200 filing fee, while defense counsel urged the jurors to abandon sensational claims as they weigh whether Simpson should pay damages.
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Calif
Q.J. Simpson
Simpson
Nicole Brown Simpson
Ronald Goldman
Hiroshi Fujisaki
Mr. Simpson
Los Angeles
Daniel Petrocelli
Petrocelli
Robert Baker
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