HAITI HANDCUFFS

The House Foreign Affairs Committee made good on a threat to set a March 1 deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Haiti, even though the Clinton Administration has asked for a freer hand. The bill passed, 27-18, and now goes before the full House. The bright side: it gives President Clinton de facto congressional support for his actions in Haiti now.

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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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