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Japanese cult leader Shoko Asahara and six top aides were chargedwith murder in theMar. 20 gas attack on Tokyo's subwaysthat killed 12 people. Police had held the cult guru for three weeks while they grilled him in an attempt to get as much information as possible before filing charges. Now the real drama begins: a trial that experts say could go on for decades. Japanese trials don't have daily sessions; hearings are spread out over months. But the outcome is almost certain. Over 99 percent of people tried in Japan are convicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AND YOU THOUGHT THE SIMPSON TRIAL WAS LONG | 6/6/1995 | See Source »

...meanwhile, have to build links to the party's center to win Senate approval of such measures as the $1 trillion budget that promises some tax cuts but stops short of the $353 billion giveaway favored by Gramm. Candidate Dole's lurch to the right has led him to attempt perilous U-turns, such as his sudden endorsement of moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, that will create fodder for rivals' television commercials early next year. But Dole's job as majority leader keeps him front and center with a general-election audience that distrusts some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AN INVITING SITUATION | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...From users, who complain that some of Microsoft's mainstay products, like the latest version of Word for the Mac, have become bloated and sluggish, and that the company's first attempt to create a more "social" kind of software (the much ballyhooed Bob) was too condescending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BILL GATES: MINE, ALL MINE | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...nearer term, the company is moving aggressively in markets that are closely linked to its existing business. Its new Microsoft Home division, for example, is an attempt to leverage its position in the market for business desktops, which is becoming saturated, and move into the so-called SOHO (small office, home office) market, which is growing at an estimated 20% a year. Microsoft has begun advancing on Lotus by adding Notes-like groupware features to Windows 95 and Windows NT. And pursuing what may be its most important source of revenue in the next few years, Microsoft continues to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BILL GATES: MINE, ALL MINE | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...more congressional proposals. G.O.P. leaders in the House postponed a vote on their foreign-aid bill after the President blasted its cuts and its "isolationist" policy directives as a "frontal assault" on presidential authority. Meanwhile, Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman warned that a presidential veto would await any attempt to revamp the federal food-stamp program into a block-grant package to the states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: MAY 21-27 | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

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