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...chilling story: some 5,000 confirmed dead, 200 still missing, 25,000 injured, 300,000 homeless. As exhausted relief workers sifted through the rubble of what was once the country's second busiest port, survivors waited stoically in line for hours for a small bottle of water and a fist-size ball of rice. Offers of help came from all over the world, and as each day revealed new horrors, Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama said that even in a country with a long history of earthquakes, the Kobe tragedy was "a disaster that nobody could even imagine." At week...
...almost immediately. ``I was only gone for about an hour, but when I got back to my apartment, I'd been burglarized. My stereo, TV, money, everything,'' says the 46-year-old Milwaukee, Wisconsin, handyman. As Thomlin tells the story, he slams the nearest piece of wood with his fist. ``You know what really kills me?'' he asks with a bitter chuckle. ``The whole goddam reason I voted was because I'm so sick of crime and the lack of values in this country.'' Now Thomlin relies on his own solution: he keeps a tire iron in his bedroom...
...this church, there are many cardinals. At one edge is San Francisco's J. Paul Emerson, a mammoth fist-pounder who doesn't mind saying he hates "the Japs." Toward the middle is syndicated host Michael Reagan, son of the former President; he and Limbaugh are the only persons made honorary members of the 104th Congress. Perhaps Reagan's most rebellious moment was when, he says, "I took on Nancy," by opposing his stepmother and supporting Oliver North for a Senate seat...
...Russian President must be aware that Chechnya has been a political catastrophe for him. The question is what lessons he will draw from the experience. Will he conclude that restive provinces across Russia can be held in check only with an iron fist? He could be feeling so isolated and friendless that he will throw in with hard-line loyalists in the Defense Ministry and the intelligence services...
Instead, Woolsey seemed more interested in fiercely defending the status quo. At his first secret hearing with the Senate Intelligence Committee in the spring of 1993, he stunned the Senators by pounding his fist on the table and accusing them of "decimating" the intelligence budget. The Senators, who had been voting for deep cuts in the defense budget, had asked only that spending for intelligence operations at the CIA, the Pentagon and other agencies remain at the previous year's level of about $28 billion. "Woolsey felt like he knew best, and nobody could tell him otherwise," says DeConcini...