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...living increases for federal pensioners, slash foreign aid sharply, and zero out Clinton's pet achievement, the national-service program. Even during the retreat, House members were forming "rump groups" to contest specific cuts, particularly the farm subsidies that Kasich has slated for major reductions. The hysteria will mount this week when Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici makes his plan public-a plan without the salve of tax cuts...
...show maximum restraint." Unfortunately, even with a cease-fire agreement, the parties have not exactly been known for their restraint. While the cease-fire was still in effect, the Bosnian Serbs repeatedly shelled the so-called safe area of Bihac, and the Bosnian government launched successful offensives on Mount Vlasic to the northwest of Sarajevo and the Majevica Hills to the northeast...
Japanese police arrested two high officials of Aum Shinrikyo found hiding in a secret basement beneath one of the cult's compounds near Mount Fuji. Though the two were arrested on other charges, authorities believe they may have been involved in last month's nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo subway. Earlier in the week, an Aum official was stabbed to death as he walked through a crowd toward the cult's Tokyo offices; his confessed killer identified himself as a member of a rightist group and said he wanted to kill an Aum leader because of the sect...
...still burns feverishly for the 50 or so remaining members of the Branch Davidian sect, their relatives and their far-right supporters who feel a passionate allegiance to a group they believe was unjustly ambushed by an oppressive government. Pam Hawkins, a Branch Davidian sympathizer and founder of the Mount Carmel Independent Investigation Advocates, said that her first reaction to the news of the Oklahoma bombing was that it might have been a "planned disruption" of the Waco commemoration. "I have learned," she said grimly, "not to give the government the benefit of the doubt...
...memory of Waco alive. He is the informal leader of the 10 or so sect members who still live near Waco, and he leads the group in religious services every Saturday; some worshippers reportedly expect Koresh to be resurrected. Until that happens, Doyle is the unofficial supervisor of the Mount Carmel site, and last week also oversaw the planting of a grove of crape myrtle trees there. Nothing, though, has revived the memory of Waco like the horror that supplanted it last week. "We are not calling for people to do this kind of thing," says Doyle. Then he adds...