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...Since then, the site has become the Park Service's third most popular historic attraction (after the Statue of Liberty and Philadelphia's Independence Hall). The visitor center, which Coretta King originally supported, was proposed to alleviate a serious shortage of parking and toilet facilities before the onslaught of 1996 Olympic crowds. The Park Service began construction in November but, the King family claims, failed to include them in the final plans...
...Californians continued to mop up heavy rain damage, flash-flood warnings were issued today for the northern half of the state, where a new storm is expected to hit tonight. Another large storm system is moving toward southern California from the Pacific. The two-week onslaught of rain has taken ten lives and caused an estimated $300 million in damages...
Despite a plea for peace -- but no offer of surrender -- from Chechnya's president Wednesday, Russian forces launched their harshest attack yet on the Chechen capital, Grozny, showering the city with artillery and rockets. Scattered groups of haggard Chechen fighters resisted the onslaught, but many retreated house by house as Russian soldiers claimed block after block of territory. Members of President Dzhokhar Dudayev's government reportedly joined the stream of refugees, though successive Russian air raids failed to dislodge rebels from the surrounding Caucasian mountains. Even a swift victory may be too little, too late to rally international opinion...
...Martin event had a different dynamic from the start, Black and Jewish students say. Martin, whose book The Jewish Onslaught draws links between Jewish history and anti-Black racism, is not as prominent as Jeffries...
...Black Students Association (BSA). They state "in his writings and in his Harvard speech, Martin alleges the existence of a Jewish conspiracy that seeks to thwart Black progress" ("Clarke Was Wrong to Endorse Martin," staff editorial, Dec. 7, 1994) I have not read Martin's book, The Jewish Onslaught, in its entirety, so I will limit my remarks to the speech...