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...there were more bad air days in August. In addition to the New York episode, terrorist fears caused a partial evacuation of Philadelphia International Airport when a bomb-sniffing dog incorrectly drew attention to a rental truck, and at Houston's Hobby Airport, where a flight was grounded after a college student joked to a ticket agent that her luggage contained guns, grenades and a bomb. Technological glitches wreaked havoc not only in Fremont but also in Miami, where an air-traffic-control center lost power for an hour because of a lightning strike. Both sorts of delay no doubt...
...negotiations. Despite the low public visibility the President and his senior policymakers maintained as events unfolded, it was clear--both to the parties in the former Yugoslavia and to the U.S. allies in Europe--that a qualitative change had taken place. After four years of ambivalence and only partial engagement, America was taking charge. ''Clinton has recognized that without American involvement and force, no resolution is possible." said an official at the German foreign ministry. "The President knows," said White House press secretary Mike McCurry, "that the times when we make even modest progress on Bosnia are when we step...
According to partial transcripts and comments by the lawyers in court, Fuhrman describes engaging in police misconduct of the most damning kind: beating suspects bloody, coercion and badgering minorities. Contrary to his sworn testimony last March that he had not used the word nigger in the past 10 years, Fuhrman's blustering talk on the tapes is laced with that word and contains other terms offensive to African Americans, Hispanics, women and Jews. In a portion of the transcripts obtained by TIME, for instance, he tells Martha Lorrie Diaz, a friend of McKinny's, that women cops are ineffectual "because...
...choice movement has taken a serious hit, at least symbolically: Norma McCorvey--the Jane Roe of the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion--joined the antiabortion group Operation Rescue, and was baptized by its leader. It was only a partial conversion, however: McCorvey says she still supports the right to an abortion during the first trimester, but not beyond...
...anti-democratic ideas ever to get loose in Congress. Private philanthropy will never be able to restore what seems about to be taken away. Some will not notice it; others won't care; given the shortness of American social memory, perhaps the next generation won't know what happened. Partial lobotomies work that way. They favor Beavis and Butt-head. Is that the business of American government...