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Turning up the heat on the Bosnian Serbs,President Clinton announced that he has decided to allow U.S. troops to participateif UN forces mount a rescue raid into Bosnia to recover the nearly 400 peacekeepers held hostage there. The tactic may be working: the Serbs said today that they are willing to begin talks immediately, but are not yet willing to free the hostages before talks begin. The President stressed thatU.S. troops would be deployed only at NATO request, and only as temporary support. Though Clinton said he would consult Congress before taking any action, Republicans objected that he should...
...hand, feels a renewed pride in the N.R.A. now that its focus has shifted from sporting issues to a zealous defense of gun ownership. Like many N.R.A. members, he fears that the citizenry's right to bear arms has been sorely challenged by such incidents as the 1993 federal raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, and the 1992 standoff between Randy Weaver and federal agents at Ruby Ridge in Idaho. "There should be more investigation. The government needs to explain itself more fully," says Dunklee, a range instructor in Phoenix, Arizona. He has been an N.R.A. member...
Nearly 400 police officers descended on Aum Shinrikyo's headquarters near Mount Fuji, capturing the cult's bearded leader, Shoko Asahara, after finding him hidden in a coffinlike secret chamber four hours after the raid began. He was arrested and held without bail on murder charges connected with the March 20 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. If convicted, he faces life imprisonment or death by hanging. Asahara denies ordering the attack, but key senior cult members have confessed to having produced sarin-and to having used it in the subway gassing...
...first air raid ofBosnian Serbssince last November,NATOwarplanes bombed an ammunition depot near the Bosnian Serb headquarters of Pale, in an attempt to force the Serbs to end their siege of Sarajevo. The planes, including some from the U.S., carried out the raid several hours after a deadline had passed for the Serbs to stop their shelling of Sarajevo and return heavy weapons toU.N. control. There were no casualties reported in the attack, and it did not appear to discourage the Serbs. Minutes after the ammunition dump went up in flames, Serb soldiers sent several mortar rounds into Sarajevo. After...
...Federal Government doesn't work nearly well enough to execute it, not on the scale and with the level of secrecy and precision the militias envision. After all, government is run by the same people who once paid $640 for toilet-seat covers, who went ahead with the initial raid on the Branch Davidians even though they knew David Koresh had been forewarned, who couldn't figure out that Aldrich Ames was selling secrets to the Soviet Union even when the $70,000-a-year cia officer moved into a half-million-dollar mansion and began driving to work...