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The papers go inside with the latest in the Elián González saga: After the Immigration and Naturalization Service threatened the boy's Miami relatives with revocation of his permission to temporarily reside in the U.S., they relented and agreed to allow his visiting grandmothers to see him today.
The Iraq story took a big turn late in the news cycle, when early this morning a Geneva meeting of foreign ministers, including Madeleine Albright, was told by a Russian diplomat that the Iraqis had relented.
George Pataki, relented in exchange for a compromise plan that will gradually raise rents by regulating the existing regulations.
When they relented and displayed their grief, they were likened to President Clinton (for feeling others' pain) and scorned for pandering to public opinion.
They relented and bypassed the computer."