HEALTH CARE . . . A GLIMMER OF HOPE FOR CLINTON?

The House Ways and Means Committee resuscitated President Clinton's health reforms, barely approving a plan to insure every American by 1998 and requiring employers to foot most of the bill. But just before the 20-18 vote, their counterparts in Daniel Patrick Moynihan's Senate Finance Committee dumped the president's employer mandate, voting instead to tax the richest health benefit plans and set a goal of getting at least 95 percent of Americans covered by 2002. Three conflicting Congressional health care bills will now go through another shredding before a compromise squeaks onto the House and Senate floors.

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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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