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...political gain went to the other side. Seven months after the fiscal year began, Congress finally passed a 1996 budget that included $23 billion in G.O.P. cuts. Legal services to the poor, subsidized public housing and the National Endowment for the Arts took sharp hits. Republicans promised to halt the growth of government spending, and they...
...death two years ago saddened everyone, but it also reminded the boomers that they were entering their 50s and being crowded from below by younger people with different cultural experiences and no special fondness for the shared memories of their elders. The Jackie auction promised an opportunity to halt the slide toward death and anonymity, to grab some tangible relic from the days when the world seemed filled with hope and high spirits...
...firing from both sides went on into the weekend, as the diplomats labored to work out a halt. Christopher headed for Damascus on Saturday to talk with Hafez Assad, considered the linchpin to any solution: if he wants to, U.S. and Israeli officials believe, Assad can persuade Hizballah to stop shooting. But why should Assad play ball? His main objective is to regain possession of the Golan Heights, the portion of southwestern Syria that Israel captured in 1967. But exactly how he intends to get it back is unclear. "The Katyushas are a means of putting pressure on Israel," says...
...diplomatic shuttle missions with Peres, Syrian President Hafez Assad and Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Christopher said that the today's agreement goes beyond the 1993 verbal agreement between Hizballah and Israel not to shell civilians on either side of the Lebanese-Israeli border. Under the deal, Hizballah will halt attacks into northern Israel, while Israel will not target civilian areas in Lebanon. A sticking point of negations was resolved when Hizballah agreed to not use civilian and industrial areas as launching points for their attacks. A final provision calls for the U.S., Israel, Syria, Lebanon and France to create...
TOKYO: Japan came to a halt Wednesday as people across the country turned their attention to a Tokyo courtroom where the cult leader accused of masterminding last year's deadly subway nerve gas attack went on trial. Aum Shinrikyo cult leader Shoko Asahara did not enter a plea to charges he killed 11 people and injured more than 3,700 in last March's attack. Public interest in Japan's "trial of the century" is intense as more than 15,000 people lined up before dawn for a lottery awarding the 48 seats available to the public. Even though there...