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WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton outlined the Administration's plan to prevent more church burnings in a White House meeting with governors, police, and prosecutors from seven Southern states. The Administration pledged to raise $10 million for church rebuilding efforts and more than $20 million to intensify federal law enforcement arson investigations. The White House also reassured the attendees that federal investigators would cooperate fully with any state and local law enforcement efforts to combat the fires. The President got a boost from the Senate, which introduced a bill Wednesday, similar to one passed unanimously Tuesday night in the House, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Church Fires: The White House Plan | 6/27/1996 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton outlined the Administration's plan to prevent more church burnings in a White House meeting with governors, police, and prosecutors from seven Southern states. The Administration pledged to raise $10 million for church rebuilding efforts and more than $20 million to intensify federal law enforcement arson investigations. The White House also reassured the attendees that federal investigators would cooperate fully with any state and local law enforcement efforts to combat the fires. The President got a boost from the Senate, which introduced a bill Wednesday, similar to one passed unanimously Tuesday night in the House, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Church Fires: The White House Plan | 6/20/1996 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton outlined the Administration's plan to prevent more church burnings in a White House meeting with governors, police, and prosecutors from seven Southern states. The Administration pledged to raise $10 million for church rebuilding efforts and more than $20 million to intensify federal law enforcement arson investigations. The White House also reassured the attendees that federal investigators would cooperate fully with any state and local law enforcement efforts to combat the fires. The President got a boost from the Senate, which introduced a bill Wednesday, similar to one passed unanimously Tuesday night in the House, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Church Fires: The White House Plan | 6/19/1996 | See Source »

...Rising Sun Missionary Baptist church in Greensboro, Alabama, and a former sanctuary at Matthews-Murkland Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, were torched--30 black churches in an eight-state arc from Louisiana to Virginia had been burned over the past 18 months. Only a handful of these arson cases have been solved. Such senseless destruction strikes at the soul of congregations. But their anguish deepens when they, the victims, also become suspects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIVIDING LINE: FIRST THE FLAME, THEN THE BLAME | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

...definetely dominated by one group, not only in terms of demographics but also politically," reports TIME's Massimo Calabresi from the city. After almost four years of war, the last of five Serb-held areas came under the control of the Muslim-Croat Federation Tuesday. Following days of looting, arson and reported rape by angry Serbs, 100 Federation police moved into the Serb suburb of Grbavica. Hours before, departing Serbs had tossed grenades and set buildings ablaze before fleeing. The mixed Federation police force -- 75 Muslims, 20 Serbs and five Croats -- now patrol the district. "Recently, between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarajevo Reunites As Serbs Hand Over Final Area | 3/19/1996 | See Source »

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