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...latest tide could pour out of southwestern Rwanda this week, when the last of 2,500 French soldiers who established a safe zone in June for 1.5 million frightened Hutu are scheduled to depart. Under domestic pressure to bring its troops home, the French government last week ignored a plea by the U.S. to stay on until the situation stabilizes. The Hutu fear that the African troops of the United Nations force replacing the French will not be able to guarantee their safety. Also poised to move in are soldiers from the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front. "We want...
...risked a year in jail and $2,500 in fines -- after he called the Associated Humane Societies to get the carcass. The AHS promptly filed charges against him. The judge found a loophole in state law that allows slaughter if vermin damage crops or livestock. But it took a plea-in-verse from local prosecutor Christopher Howard to put things in perspective: "Because the killing of a rat by this man of this repute/ The state concludes does not fall within the criminal statute." Stacey China, the Star-Ledger (Newark) reporter who broke the story, told TIME Daily...
What is most worth saving in the bill? The ban on assault weapons, which won't cost taxpayers a cent. The building of more prisons, which will cut the number of plea bargains and ensure that those who should remain behind bars do so. And most important, the hiring of 100,000 new cops...
...rising tide of Cuban refugees has prompted Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles to declare an "immigration state of emergency," mobilizing the National Guard and state agencies. But Chiles' subsequent plea for federal action and financial assistance got a cool reception in Washington, where Attorney General Janet Reno -- a Floridian herself -- said the Administration was managing the problem "in an orderly way and without disruption." But the federal government may be poised to reverse its 30-year-old Cuban policy: instead of allowing immigrants to stay in the U.S., they may be intercepted or turned back. Short of that, sources tell TIME...
...answered with a simple "not guilty" when asked by Clerk Magistrate Robert F. Shell to enter a plea...