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...moving to protect its citizens, Canada has again taken steps at which the United States has repeatedly blanched. By proposing a ban on "Saturday night special" handguns and requiring the registration of all firearms, the Canadian Parliament has made a firm commitment to fighting crime...
...rampaging rivers, barely more than a year after the Christmas 1993 floods. From Bavaria to the Dutch border, the washouts brought normal riverside life almost to a standstill and kept the Bundeswehr busy deploying rescue teams in rubber dinghies. Waters lapped at the doors of Bonn's new parliament building, and smaller sections of Frankfurt were also overrun. Shipping was suspended entirely along the lower reaches of the Rhine, the world's busiest inland waterway. In Koblenz the river rose to 9.27 m and surrounded the newly restored bronze statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I. The Emperor's bronze likeness appeared...
...water levels subsided. As soldiers continued to rush sandbags into otherwise deserted southern towns, authorities put together emergency plans for bolstering the shakiest bulwarks more permanently. ``Holland has a long history and a great reputation when it comes to defending ourselves against the sea,'' Prime Minister Wim Kok reminded Parliament. Now that the rivers seemed at least as great a peril, he declared, ``we must show what we're worth in this regard as well...
...civilian casualties. Tuesday night, lawmaker Yuri Rybakov said a group led by Russia's human rights commissioner has compiled a list of 25,000 civilians killed so far in Grozny, the Chechen capital. (The Kremlin has already rejected similar estimates, including one of 20,000 dead by the Russian parliament's defense committee.) Russian forces, meanwhile, began bombarding villages in Ingushetia, one of several border republics that Russia accuses of harboring Chechen rebels...
...Arafat what Environment Minister Yossi Sarid called ``a very deep freeze, one with no nonsense.'' But after the Beit Lid massacre, the government approved the construction and sale of 4,000 units in occupied land around Jerusalem. Says Mohammed Subieh, the Cairo-based general secretary of the P.L.O.'s parliament-like Palestine National Council: ``Rabin has put us in a bad position. He is not helping himself...