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...innocent civilians to continue. The isolationism practiced in the West in the 1930s cannot be repeated. But President Clinton should seek congressional approval before sending in military forces. Without this, neither Congress nor the American people will give their full support to troops in Bosnia. SARAH FRANKLIN Auburn, Alabama...
...year Alma and Colin insisted that Michael and his family move in with them--for six months--while the young couple's new house was being built. Last week, shortly after Yitzhak Rabin's assassination and just as Colin was making his big decision, Alma called her sister in Alabama. "It was nice to hear from her," says Barbara Greene. "We talked about the grandkids." Anything else? "Just the grandkids." Alma never brought up the decision, and Greene never asked. "It wasn't on her mind," Greene says...
...says Michael. "She already knew the world was like that,'' he says. "This is a family that knows. The stories of my mother and grandfather sitting in the house with guns in their hands ready to shoot whoever came up the driveway are true. She grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. Little girls were blown up in churches for no reason...
...biracial federal jury acquitted Christopher Lynn Johnson, the son of a black activist, of charges that he burned down Alabama's Randolph County High School last year. The school was gutted following the furor that erupted when the school's white principal, Hulond Humphries, unsuccessfully tried to cancel a prom because of interracial dating. The defense suggested that Humphries may have been the real arsonist--an accusation the principal strongly and tearfully denied on the stand...
...losses were estimated at $2 billion, making it the fourth most costly natural disaster in U.S. history. Opal utterly demolished much of a 140-mile stretch of coastline between Mobile and Panama City, Florida, including some of America's most exquisite beaches. It killed people with falling trees in Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina. But no major population areas caught the full force of its winds, and some towns directly in its path managed to escape almost unscathed...