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Graham indicated that she may not serve for very long, saying that Simmons would mount an "intensive early summer search" to find a new president...
Turning up the heat on the Bosnian Serbs,President Clinton announced that he has decided to allow U.S. troops to participateif UN forces mount a rescue raid into Bosnia to recover the nearly 400 peacekeepers held hostage there. The tactic may be working: the Serbs said today that they are willing to begin talks immediately, but are not yet willing to free the hostages before talks begin. The President stressed thatU.S. troops would be deployed only at NATO request, and only as temporary support. Though Clinton said he would consult Congress before taking any action, Republicans objected that he should...
...Tsuchiya admitted he had concocted sarin just before the subway attack. He added that while only 10 liters were used in the Tokyo attack, he had made "several tens of liters" of sarin in a secret laboratory behind Satian No. 7, the huge Aum-owned factory compound also near Mount Fuji that had been the object of police searches in March. He destroyed the rest of the sarin, he claims, to remove evidence...
Worried that your doctors seem to keep getting younger? Meet BALAMURALI AMBATI. At 17, he just graduated from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, which claims he's the youngest physician ever. Ambati moved from India to the U.S. with his family when he was three and graduated from New York University (magna cum laude, natch) at 13. Unlike TV's Doogie Howser, however, Ambati doesn't look young. "At [medical school] orientation, someone mentioned that the youngest member of the class was 14," he says. "People were asking me, 'Have you seen the 14-year-old?'" After he's finished...
Nearly 400 police officers descended on Aum Shinrikyo's headquarters near Mount Fuji, capturing the cult's bearded leader, Shoko Asahara, after finding him hidden in a coffinlike secret chamber four hours after the raid began. He was arrested and held without bail on murder charges connected with the March 20 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. If convicted, he faces life imprisonment or death by hanging. Asahara denies ordering the attack, but key senior cult members have confessed to having produced sarin-and to having used it in the subway gassing...