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...inches longer," joked emergency- room manager Linda Shoemaker. "We carry buckets here and go home and carry more." Lining up for water at a Des Moines parking lot, Donna Bailey was upbeat in describing her family's coping strategy: "Every surface is covered with bowls of water. And we flush the toilets with rainwater we keep in the bathtub." Doug Riggs, on vacation from his job as a social worker in Marshalltown, drove 75 miles into Des Moines to help out and found himself managing a shelter at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church. But at week's end only...
...battles have raged in the streets of Mogadishu almost daily since 23 Pakistani peacekeepers died in an ambush last month. Blaming Aidid, the U.S. has led U.N. forces in an aggressive bid to flush him out, culminating in a daylight attack on a meeting of Aidid's top commanders on Monday. At the end of a 20-min. barrage of missiles and cannon fire from U.S. helicopter gunships, dozens of bodies lay scattered around the demolished villa. When foreign journalists arrived to view the carnage, an enraged crowd turned on them with stones, guns and machetes, killing four...
...home looked warm and welcoming enough to the young Branch Davidian girl. She was fascinated with the hot running water, flush toilets, heated food. The Waco compound had no such comforts. But upon passing a door leading to the basement, the youngster froze. "Do you have a whipping room down there?" she asked her new guardians. "No," answered the woman who now cared for her, "do you have one?" "Yes," said the little girl. "When they don't want everyone to hear us, they take us down there...
...weapons. "That's untouchable," says a senior State Department official. "It creates jobs in the U.S., which in case you haven't noticed is what the Clinton Administration is supposed to be all about." The remaining $1.2 billion in economic aid is harder to justify now that Israel is flush. Foreign investment is flowing in, the growth rate is a phenomenal 6%, and the $10 billion in loan guarantees finally granted by George Bush last year has permitted Israel to borrow from private banks at favorable rates. The country is doing so well that the government has asked the Israel...
...President did everything he could to outflank the lobbyists -- except for those he meant to enlist in his cause, like the environmentalists, the children's activists, the consumer groups. White House officials were proud of their willingness to flush the enemy out into the open. "We've already changed the debate from 'Can we take them on?' to 'How much do we dare to do?' " said an official. But it was Ross Perot, in giving his tentative blessing to Clinton's plan, who acknowledged, "More lobbyists will get rich in the next 90 days than in the history...