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A story on the LAT front reports further on the increasing difficulties with U.S. intelligence's explanation for why that Sudanese plant must have been producing components for nerve gas (difficulties first broached last week by the NYT ). According to the LAT , German and British officials have quietly expressed the belief that possibly pharmaceutical products were made there.
The WP reports that before the two leaders broached substantive matters, they made an attempt to clear the air about their own troubled relationship.
There's other news today: The NYT reports that the Communists are threatening Boris Yeltsin with impeachment if he renominates Viktor Chernomyrdin to be his prime minister (a story first broached earlier in the week by the LAT ); the WP and NYT report that government security guards in Beijing brutally hauled away the wife of a jailed dissident to keep her from delivering a letter of protest to the visiting U.N. commissioner on human rights.
But no one broached these questions at the hearing.
It was Lindsay, Broker says, who first broached the idea of having a senior volunteer attorney program, which is flourishing today.