UNUSUALLY SMOOTH SAILING FOR CLINTON NOMINEE

The Senate today made Kansas Rep. Dan Glickman secretary of agriculture in a 94-0 vote. Glickman succeedsMike Espy, who stepped down last year after revelations that he got favors from firms doing business with the agency. Glickman last year lost his bid for re-election to a 10th House term.

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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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