MINIMUM WAGE . . . SHHHH

Stumping for his middle-class tax cut in the aptly-named locale of Kutztown, Pa., President Clinton pointedly avoided mentioning hisState of the Union proposalto raise the minimum wage from $4.25 to $5 an hour. White House press secretary Mike McCurry confirmed that Clinton, hoping to avoid a fight with Republicans, will try to work something out behind the scenes with Congress.

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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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