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The Pan-Arab daily al-Quds al-Arabi said Thursday that Afghanistan's ruling militia, the Taliban, was tightening the noose around him but would not yield to U.S. pressure to hand him over or banish him to a third country.
But the fact that the Fed isn't biased toward further tightening suggests that the economy isn't necessarily growing faster than Greenspan would like it to be.
USAT 's headline announces the international "rebuke on [the] test ban vote" received by the U.S., while the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times --which off-lead the story--note merely that "Clinton Fumes at [the] GOP" ( LAT ) and "Fault[s] GOP Partisanship" ( WP ). The Post and LAT lead with the military's tightening grip on Islamabad, a story off-leaded by the NYT and stuffed by USAT .
The bond market, meanwhile, seemed so concerned about inflation that it felt as if the Fed was leaning toward tightening.
The Democratic campaign-finance scandal expanded while tightening around President Clinton.