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...hard to take seriously that a nation has deep problems," a former French Foreign Minister once said of the U.S., "if they can be fixed with a 50¢-a-gal. gasoline tax." True, at this point it will take more than a 50¢ gas tax to cure the deepest problem facing American government: its massive federal indebtedness. But not very much more. The Senate budget plan balances the budget in seven years by reducing the increase in federal spending from 5% a year to 3%. Even the radical attack on Medicare turns out to be a cut in the annual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLINTON VS. CONGRESS: THE RACE IS SET | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...Time has learned that a salesman picked out Terry Nichols from a lineup. The receipt has McVeigh's fingerprints on it. According to a government source, the same phony name was used to purchase a second ton of fertilizer. Agents have also found evidence that Nichols bought 55 gal. of diesel fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIS GUY IS A NATIONAL TRAGEDY | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

...come back in a while, you'll clean out the storage shed." When authorities searched a locker believed to have been rented by McVeigh in September 1994, it was empty. Nichols' home, however, yielded a 60-mm antitank rocket, 33 firearms and nonelectric detonators, four 55-gal. plastic drums, literature about Waco, antitax and antigovernment pamphlets and three empty 50-lb. bags of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, the material used in Oklahoma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOMETHING BIG IS GOING TO HAPPEN | 5/8/1995 | See Source »

JOHNNIE COCHRAN O.J. lawyer learns ex-gal pal has retained a palimony expert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Feb. 27, 1995 | 2/27/1995 | See Source »

While goods are now flowing in and the price of gasoline has dropped from $10 per gal. to $2, the economy has yet to revive. Nine thousand U.S. soldiers remain stationed in 29 cities, drawn more deeply into solving local problems with each passing week. The national airport is surrounded by concertina wire, and the industrial park nearby that once housed scores of assembly plants is occupied by American troops. Crime is up, and the population is struggling with the aftereffects of last month's tropical storm Gordon, which killed more than 1,000 people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: Getting the Hang of It | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

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