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- Jan. 25, 1993: Be Careful What You Wish For
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jan. 25, 1993 Stand and Deliver: Bill Clinton
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
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- <p>By JANICE CASTRO
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- <p> Be Careful What You Wish For
- </p>
- <p> Senior officials of Fatah, Yasser Arafat's P.L.O. faction,
- are telling of a plot that backfired on them. They say Fatah,
- not HAMAS, the Palestinian fundamentalist group, was
- responsible for the murder of an Israeli border policeman last
- month, which triggered the controversial expulsion from Israel
- of 415 alleged Hamas members. Fatah wanted to cause problems for
- its rivals in Hamas, which opposes the Middle East peace talks.
- Instead, the overreaction by the Israelis has aroused strong
- popular support for Hamas. P.L.O. representatives at the peace
- talks are refusing to continue until the deportees come home.
- </p>
- <p>Grim Realities of School Life
- </p>
- <p> East Palo Alto, California, suffers one of the highest
- homicide rates in the nation. As a result, teachers in the
- Ravenswood Elementary City School District often find themselves
- chipping in as much as $500 to help defray the funeral expenses
- of a student caught in the cross fire. But since minimum
- expenses for funerals tend to run two to three times as high,
- the district is facing a grim decision. Next week the school
- board will discuss whether to buy life insurance for its
- students in order to make sure that funerals are covered. Since
- most of the students in the district are poor, district
- superintendent Charlie Mae Knight is seeking outside
- contributions to finance the insurance. Says she: "We have a
- community under siege. We have to take some action."
- </p>
- <p>Thanks for the Memories
- </p>
- <p> Hollywood, that hotbed of liberalism, has voiced plenty of
- humane sentiment over the plight of inner-city Los Angeles
- residents since last year's riots. But at least three major
- studios--Disney, Universal and Fox--do not recognize MARTIN
- LUTHER KING DAY. Says a spokesman for MCA, the parent company
- of Universal: "This corporation has made the decision that
- Martin Luther King Day is not a holiday."
- </p>
- <p>Come On Down!
- </p>
- <p> Movies like Bugsy may romanticize the raw power the mafia
- once exercised in Los Angeles. But according to the FBI, the
- influence of the local Mafia has declined so severely that L.A.
- is "an open city," an easy touch for mobs looking to muscle in.
- Most of the Mafia leaders in L.A. are getting pretty long in
- the tooth, for one thing. The FBI currently counts about 18
- out-of-town Mafiosi operating openly in the City of Angels. More
- may be arriving soon.
- </p>
- <p>A Few Good (Sweet-Smelling) Men
- </p>
- <p> In every war zone, one kind of impossible-to-find, mundane
- consumer product or another is treasured like gold. In Somalia
- the U.S. troops reportedly will trade just about anything for
- a nice box of HUGGIES. With clean water in such short supply in
- the stifling climate, everyone yearns for a chance to freshen
- up. According to an NBC cameraman who just returned from the
- front, war-weary journalists are bartering the diapers, which
- when moistened, provide a great rubdown, almost as good as a
- bath. Says he: "And they leave you smelling baby-powder fresh."
- </p>
- <p>The Making of Bubbadent
- </p>
- <p> Bill Clinton called a radio host during the New York
- primary, announcing "This is Bubba." The name stuck. Next month
- the first issue of Bubba magazine (written in Manhattan by
- non-Bubbas, natch) will appear. Sample wisdom: Hillary's no
- Bubbette, but be cool--her husband controls the bombs.
- Besides, the First Mom is genuine. Just check out her Tammy Faye
- lashes.
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