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...Richter scale and was followed by at least 17 aftershocks, hardest in the major port city of Kobe, where fires burned out of control, trains derailed and a major elevated expressway toppled, spilling about 50 vehicles onto the street below. The shaking, which began at 3:46 p.m. EST (5:46 a.m. in Japan) and lasted about 20 seconds, was also felt strongly 22 miles away in Osaka, Japan's second-largest city. Nearly 200 people were believed buried in rubble in Ashiya, a posh residential district between Kobe and Osaka. Japan's Cabinet was scheduled to hold an emergency...
Russian tanks and artillery stepped up theirshelling of the presidential palace in Groznytoday, hours before Moscow offered a cease-fire beginning at midnight EST. Oddly, word of the possible truce first came from Sergei Kovalyov, Russia's human rights commissioner, who quoted Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, a rival of President Boris Yeltsin, as saying: "This is only the beginning of the negotiation process." The Russian announcement was unclear on whether a cease-fire could begin unless the Chechens agree to such severe terms as laying down their arms, retreating from key positions and accepting Russian political control.TIME State Department...
Pope John Paul II has, among many other things, the world's bully-est pulpit. Few of his predecessors over the past 2,000 years have spoken from it as often and as forcefully as he. When he talks, it is not only to his flock of nearly a billion; he expects the world to listen. And the flock and the world listen, not always liking what they hear. This year he cast the net of his message wider than ever: Crossing the Threshold of Hope, his meditations on topics ranging from the existence of God to the mistreatment...
When the terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad bombed Israelis in recent weeks, U.S. officials vowed to clamp down on their fundraising apparatus in -- of all places -- the United States. "Jihad in America," the first look at the groups' U.S. activities, airs Monday from 9-10 p.m. EST on many PBS stations, despite protests and intense pressure from U.S. Muslim groups to yank it. The documentary begins with the World Trade Center bombing and winds through a 38 city support network. PBS, rattled by Muslim accusations that it's an unfair attack on the 6-million-member minority...
...sold 20 million copies worldwide and was on the New York Times best-seller list for 34 weeks. Now CBS plans to capitalize on -- or, rather, re-inflict -- Scarlett fever with an eight-hour, four-part mini-series based on Ripley's sequel (beginning this Sunday at 9 p.m. EST...