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The Los Angeles Times and Washington Post off-lead Iowa and go instead with the Supreme Court's 6-3 upholding of dollar limits on political contributions, a story the NYT top-fronts.
It is a terrible responsibility, upholding her society's values and preventing her siblings and Michael, the illegitimate son of her youngest sister, Christina (Catherine McCormack), from descending into chaos and impoverishment.
The NATO raid in Bosnia leads at the New York Times and Los Angeles Times . New revelations about Democrat fundraising lead at the Washington Post . The upholding by a federal court of "Megan's Law" leads at USA Today .
Yasser Arafat, having tried to show the Israelis he's serious about upholding his end of the just-concluded peace accords by arresting scores of Hamas members, is now, reports the WP , being threatened in a Hamas leaflet with violent retaliation.
The Daily Telegraph , however, extolled NATO as "the only organisation capable of upholding the international order" and defended its Yugoslavia offensive as a means of keeping the United States happy.