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...over half the country in just two months. Last week they pressed their offensive into Kigali and the southwest, relentlessly shelling Rwandan army positions and closing in on the seat of the interim government in Gitarama, 25 miles southwest of Kigali. Army troops, their morale plummeting, have yet to launch a single counterattack. Despite ongoing cease-fire talks in the capital, the rebels are unlikely to call a halt to the fighting before the government has been routed and the massacres stopped...
President Clinton, preparing to launch his welfare reform program in Congress next week, told TIME why he thinks his plan will work. "We go after what is the real source of this problem, which is the inordinate number of out-of-wedlock births in this country" he said in an exclusive interview. Under his $9.3 billion scheme, moms now receiving aid would be forced to work after 24 months on the dole. The program would also crack down on deadbeat dads. In a Congress overloaded with legislation, welfare reform may very well be pushed through because there is bi-partisan...
These students were frustrated with the Crimson's monopoly on Campus news and opinion, and they worked all spring and summer to launch the new publication...
...into a bitter, almost unending debate over whether to carry the attack forward on a broad or narrow front. The Allied Expeditionary Force was about to drive on into Germany right up to the Rhine. After bringing units and equipment back up to strength there, Eisenhower said, he would launch a "sustained and unremitting advance against the heart of the enemy country...
...ANOTHER INNOVATION, LAST WEEK SAW the launch of our new on-line service, TIME Daily. A supplement to the computer version of the magazine that we put out each Sunday night through America Online, TIME Daily highlights each weekday's top national and international stories, shaped with the same telling detail and knowing perspective as stories in the magazine. With AOL's interactive bulletin boards, TIME Daily enables us, as does TIME on Capitol Hill, to keep subscribers up to date while providing them with a way to make their voices heard on the issues that matter to them...