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...fruitless phone conversations in which Koresh holds forth on scriptural prophecy and heavenly signs, kept up their psychological warfare. After dark, high-intensity spotlights were directed into the compound, which has been without electricity since federal agents cut the power on March 12. At times a helicopter circled overhead, playing a mobile searchlight into windows...
...auto and life) and replace them with a Canadian-style "single payer," which could be the Federal Government, a quasi-public agency or each of the 50 states. In one fell swoop, health-care costs would be reduced by much of the $80 billion that now goes for "administrative overhead," producing savings that, according to the General Accounting Office, would be sufficient to insure everyone, without deductibles, coinsurance or Oregon-style rationing. It would still be the job of the new single payer to crack down -- not on consumer overutilization but on rampant profiteering and plain old corruption (doctors referring...
...priorities straight. The cynical college reporters agreed that priorities were important but still wanted to know who was going to pay for them. Cue for the big speech about "250 cuts in the budget proposal over the next five years." Cuts in farm subsidies and federal overhead. And, of course, "revenue increases...
...house in Little Rock, so the two couples see a lot of each other -- boating on the Arkansas River, sitting around the Clinton kitchen playing Trivial Pursuit, and taking vacations together. But Thanksgiving weekend at the Thomasons' new house in California turned into a media event, complete with helicopters overhead and boats bearing paparazzi...
MOGADISHU WAS A PRELIMINARY; BAIDOA WAS the real thing. Some 70 trucks, jeeps and armored vehicles carried U.S. Marines and French Foreign Legionnaires into that town, in the heart of Somalia's famine zone, last Wednesday, as helicopter gunships buzzed overhead. The show of force was meant to tell armed looters: You can't match our firepower, so get lost. So far, Somalia's gangs have shied away from any shoot-outs with the foreign troops. But armed bandits did steal some food that had been delivered under Marine guard to villages near Baidoa, after the Marines left. Gunmen have...