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...disaster area. This means the government will now shoulder 90 percent of the estimated $58 billion cost of rebuilding the city. In addition, the government eased restrictions on foreign doctors seeking to treat victims of the quake, and reduced the income tax burden on residents who suffered the heaviest losses. But the measures did little to curb the clamor of the opposition New Frontier Party -- some of whose members are calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama...
...massive flooding and mudslides that have closed highways and dissolved property. Governor Pete Wilson added ten more counties this morning to the previous 24 listed as state disaster areas. President Clinton, who plans to visit the state early next week, has offered federal assistance to the counties suffering the heaviest damage...
Physicists think six types of quarks are the building blocks of all the particles within atomic nuclei. They had found the first five by 1977, and now the top quark, the sixth and heaviest, has been identified at Fermilab, near Chicago. It took 440 scientists to spot the top, which disintegrates in an infinitesimal fraction of a second...
Meanwhile, the United Nations warned both sides to quit shelling each other at Sarajevo, or else face the possibility of NATO air strikes. Yesterday, the city saw the heaviest fighting in months between Serbs who targeted the center of town and Muslims who mounted an infantry attack outside the city...
Pope John Paul II canceled his planned trip to Sarajevo amid some of the heaviest shooting around the Bosnian capital in months. The pope had hoped to say a public Mass there Thursday, but the Vatican said there were no "sufficient guarantees for the safety of the population" and that a papal visit now could only "add to the tensions." (The pope's planned appearance had been in doubt since he announced the idea last month, as Bosnian Serbs repeatedly warned him to stay away for his own safety.) The pontiff, who vowed to make the journey at some point...