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Amir reportedly told police he had been planning to kill Rabin since at least January. The Prime Minister had been scheduled to go to Yad Vashem that month to visit the sacred memorial to the Holocaust, but when the Islamic Jihad launched a suicide bomb at a bus depot at the Beit Lid Junction in Central Israel, he canceled the visit. Several months later, Amir allegedly planned to assassinate Rabin at a highway dedication in Kfar Shmaryahu, but that time he could not penetrate the Prime Minister's security detail...
...heavy-weapons exclusion zone enforced by NATO around Sarajevo. The Serbs had already been shelling the Bosnian capital from inside the zone, breaking the February 1994 agreement. Last week they made the nose thumbing official by brassily pulling three artillery pieces and a mortar out of a U.N. impoundment depot, firing them at Sarajevo and ignoring a U.N.-NATO ultimatum to hand them back. That was too much even for Yasushi Akashi, the top U.N. official in Bosnia. He had vetoed several previous requests by local U.N. commanders for bombing strikes, but this time he approved one. It came Thursday...
...first air raid ofBosnian Serbssince last November,NATOwarplanes bombed an ammunition depot near the Bosnian Serb headquarters of Pale, in an attempt to force the Serbs to end their siege of Sarajevo. The planes, including some from the U.S., carried out the raid several hours after a deadline had passed for the Serbs to stop their shelling of Sarajevo and return heavy weapons toU.N. control. There were no casualties reported in the attack, and it did not appear to discourage the Serbs. Minutes after the ammunition dump went up in flames, Serb soldiers sent several mortar rounds into Sarajevo. After...
DUBLIN: Robbery Ruckus Fallout from Ireland's largest cash heist ever has officials and security personnel fending off allegations of bumbling. On Jan. 24, two jeeps burst through the fence of the Brink's-Allied depot in northern Dublin. The five masked occupants, encountering no resistance, bagged $4.2 million and sped away. Following Justice Ministry assurances that all precautions had been taken to prevent such a raid, embarrassing revelations emerged. Not only did police fail to beef up surveillance after a warning that a security-company robbery was being planned, but when the theft took place, most of the Brink...
...industry. ``I can heal myself twice as fast,'' boasts Bill Ambrose, 44, a Denver energy-management technician who has been treating a minor leg injury with a homeopathic herb. Home-improvement retailers are profiting from consumers who find plumbers, contractors and electricians to be unaffordable, untrustworthy or both. Home Depot, the largest home-improvement retailer, posted record earnings of $141 million for the third quarter of 1994, a 36% increase over the same period...