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Zairian president Mobutu Sese Seko returned home from France in a last-ditch attempt to salvage some part of the power he once held.
Both the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times go with President Clinton's last-ditch attempt to generate support for the fast-track trade authority bill.
Three Secret Service agents testified before a federal grand jury yesterday, and the surprisingly swift development captured the leads at all three papers--the Washington Post , the New York Times , and the Los Angeles Times . The agents were cleared to testify when Chief Justice William Rehnquist denied a last-ditch DOJ appeal to stay their testimony.
The Journal tops its "Worldwide" box with Clinton's dispatch of two negotiators to Beijing in a last-ditch effort to include China in the World Trade Organization before the next WTO meeting on Nov. 30.
But, notes the paper, there is a new wrinkle too: the State Department has ruled out any last-ditch negotiations.