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...question preoccupies assistant police chief Larry Roberts, who has been on the Omaha force for 20 years. He says the big surge in youth violence started in 1986, when gang members from Los Angeles moved eastward to colonize smaller cities. Now teenagers throughout the area try to match the firepower of the gang members. "If one kid brings a little .22-cal. pistol and the other has a .357 Magnum, then guess who has status," Roberts says. The gunplay spread quickly beyond the gangs. "For some reason this particular generation of kids has absolutely no value for human life...
Barrett is one third of the way through an eastward walk through the state. Equipped with three sets of sneakers to protect his blistering feet, and trailed by a red and blue school bus to carry campaign aides, Barrett yesterday walked through Fast Hampton. He will arrive on the state's Atlantic Coast in about three weeks...
...COMBATANTS ON ONE track and the painfully deliberate forces of international diplomacy on the other, the struggle to resolve the civil war in Bosnia has turned into a hare-tortoise race. With more than two- thirds of the former Yugoslav republic under their control, Serb nationalists continued to drive eastward, occupying about one new village a day, toward Muslim Srebrenica. A U.N.-sponsored relief effort to airlift the ill and injured out of Srebrenica collapsed when Serb gunners shelled mission helicopters, killing...
...German issue cuts both ways. Politicians such as former Prime Minister Michel Rocard call Maastricht a way to harness the "German demons." Folding Germany into Western Europe's strong embrace, the argument goes, will prevent it from turning eastward to build a new economic empire around the former Soviet satellites. On the other hand, a growing number of Frenchmen find the intimacy prescribed by Maastricht too close for comfort. "France has been a sovereign nation for 1,000 years," said Cognac Mayor Francis Hardy. "We have suffered too much in three wars with Germany to melt into one federal agglomeration...
...NINO. To meteorologists, the weather phenomenon named after the Christ child is not a theory but a recognizable and recurrent climatological event. Every few years around Christmastime, a huge pool of warm seawater in the western Pacific begins to expand eastward toward Ecuador, nudging the jet streams off course and disrupting weather patterns across half the earth's surface. The El Nino that began last year and is now breaking up has been linked to record flooding in Latin America, the unseasonably warm winter in North America and the droughts in Africa...