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...near Port Shepstone in southern Natal province, 10 young A.N.C. members were slaughtered last week in a savage hand-grenade, shotgun and machete attack, despite a peace pact between A.N.C. and Inkatha Freedom Party representatives just a week before. Elsewhere, police and military forces were on alert for possible Easter-weekend attacks on whites by the Azanian People's Liberation Army, the military wing of the black-power group the Pan-Africanist Congress. Political violence over the past three years has claimed more than 10,000 lives. But until Hani, no major political leader had been assassinated since Prime Minister...
...sorts took place last week, casually celebrated at a local restaurant in the Florida city of Melbourne. After three months of work, 22 men and women, ranging in age from 16 to 67, became the nation's first formally trained class of abortion protesters. Following the meal, and an Easter weekend of demonstrations at nearby abortion clinics, the graduates began dispersing to their homes across the country, where they will teach the tactics they learned in Florida...
Late Friday, majority leader George Mitchell angrily postponed the Senate's Easter recess. But Republicans vowed to hold out until the Democrats give up more than half the proposed spending package, including $500 million for the popular Head Start program for children...
...procedure was adopted in 1974 that the Senate had approved a budget resolution as early as March. Because the House of Representatives previously passed an only slightly different measure, odds are that a compromise setting broad dollar goals for spending and revenues will clear the full Congress before the Easter recess starts on April...
...group may have its own emergency generators. Koresh is telling negotiators that he is annoyed by reports that he has claimed to be Christ, despite the stories of ex-cult members that he often did so. Though he is reported to have urged his flock last Easter to prepare for mass suicide, he now insists that they will not turn their guns upon themselves. But people who know them well are not reassured. Say the worried Lisa and Bruce Gent: "They will kill for him." And Koresh, a man caught up in a dream of the Apocalypse, may be ready...