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...quick-reaction force based in Zaire or Tanzania that could intervene "in the event of a sudden deterioration of the situation" has so far met with only a lukewarm response. Western governments, wary of repeating the high-profile failure of the intervention in Somalia, are reluctant to commit foreign troops to a country with minimal strategic or commercial interests--and so far with few TV scenes of horror broadcast to prick the world's conscience. Western officials note, moreover, that the Burundian army and members of the coalition government oppose the idea. Even prominent Hutu moderates, including the country...
...Russian presidential election scheduled for June. He was responding to the results of December's vote for the Russian parliament, the Duma, in which most successful candidates had campaigned as opponents of the measures with which Chubais was associated. The American government was thus, in effect, urging Yeltsin to commit political suicide...
...time under oath--to the deposition questioning that began this week in the civil case brought by the families of murder victims Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Transcripts of those closed-door proceedings are expected to be released later. In his TV interview, O.J. said he did not commit the murders, and he blamed the media for having turned much of the public against...
...would cheerfully set aside her preoccupations to volunteer for jury duty. Anyone else in her circumstances would be out getting a doctor's note, but no, she's actually eager to take a few weeks off to help decide the fate of a Mafia boss accused of conspiring to commit murder...
...delays shouldn't affect the distribution of Harvard awards. Harvard is more immune to federal uncertainty than other institutions because it is able to commit more of its own money to aid programs, Miller says...