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...lone gunman armed to the teeth with a small arsenal of weapons went on a terrifying 25-min. semiautomatic shooting spree on a San Francisco street before being shot to death by police. One police officer was killed and three people were wounded by the gunman...
...Ukraine signed agreements today laying the framework for cooperation between the countries on business and space ventures and for starting the flow of millions of dollars of aid to the former Soviet republic. The agreements followed Ukraine's decision last week to give up its nuclear arsenal and relinquish its position as the world's third-largest nuclear power. Today, President Clinton promised $200 million in new U.S. aid to President Leonid Kuchma over the next two years on top of $700 million already approved by Congress to help dismantle nuclear missiles. He also pledged to support Ukraine's independence...
...discount the Muslims' fighting ability, by surprise. Bosnian Serb soldiers have been demoralized by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's decision last August to close his border with Bosnia, cutting off fuel and spare parts for the Bosnian ! Serb army. Its longstanding edge in mobility and firepower -- a heavy-weapons arsenal 10 times as big as the Bosnian government's -- is diminishing as fuel and supplies dwindle. Less fuel also means fewer rotations back home, hurting morale...
Left unchecked, Pyongyang would surely expand its bomb-grade plutonium stocks and its arsenal of nukes, which may already include one or two atomic devices. That could spawn a regional arms race and, worse still, a proliferation nightmare. "The real threat, if the North is allowed to get more nuclear-weapons material, would be their selling it, not using it," says Representative Gary Ackerman, who chairs the House Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific. "Their economy is virtually nonexistent. They'll do anything for money, which is why they're the largest exporter of Scud missiles. If they...
...hour psychiatric exam. But the U.S. magistrate handling the case didn't release a letter found in Duran's truck that prosecutors say raises questions about his sanity. (Unofficially, they've said, it's a will.) Also in the truck, parked near the White House: a shotgun, an arsenal of ammunition, a gun magazine, a machete, sleeping bags and a stuffed animal. The 26-year-old Colorado man, who'll face another hearing Wednesday to determine whether he's competent to stand trial, disappeared Sept. 30. Federal investigators say he telephoned his wife once, saying he was never coming back...