CLINTON'S NEW DEAL ON WELFARE

Sounding like the "new" Democrat he portrayed himself as on the campaign trail, President Clinton today launched his welfare-reform program by extolling work and the traditional family. He chose a heartland site, Kansas City, Missouri, to lay out his $9.3 billion plan's major component: a back-to-work scheme limiting welfare moms to two years on the dole. Republicans predictably fired back by calling the plan a big-spending initiative.

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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