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...Cubans into the country and leave 450 Haitians in Guantanamo, I felt like someone had stuck me with a knife," says a 17-year-old boy. "This is a very cruel situation." (U.S. military officials will not allow the children to be quoted by name.) When Attorney General Janet Reno announced the new Cuban policy on May 3, dozens of furious Haitian teens first tried to organize a hunger strike with the younger children, then went on a rampage, pelting soldiers with rocks and setting tents on fire. No one was seriously injured in the melee, but a handful...
Several members of Congress have taken notice. In late April Senator Jesse Helms wrote to Attorney General Janet Reno asking for an investigation into whether Lacey 's team is keeping the Mob out of the Teamsters. Aides from Senator Orrin Hatch's Judiciary Committee are gathering documents and considering hearings. if such an examination indicates Carey is clean, it would finally put to rest the speculation that he is a federal informant along the lines of the late Teamsters leader Jackie Presser...
Evidence against bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh mounted as investigators learned he had boasted just days before the bombing that "something big is going to happen." At a hearing, held in the El Reno Federal Corrections Center for security reasons, a federal magistrate ordered him to be held without bail. Two other men, Terry and Joseph Nichols, who were taken into custody as material witnesses, continued to be held, but neither has been charged directly in the bombing. And there was still no break in the search for a second bombing suspect, known only as John...
...decision that could herald a new direction for the court, the Justices ruled that the 1990 Gun-Free School Zones Act could not come under the Constitution's interstate commerce clause and was thus an infringement of state power. An angry Clinton gave Attorney General Janet Reno a week to find a legal way around the ruling...
...terrorism package, despite GOP warnings that a controversial FBI promotion could stall it. "It needs to pass and pass now," Clinton said. "Nothing can justify turning this bill into a political football." He was referring to a suggestion made Sunday by House Speaker Newt Gingrich that Attorney General Janet Reno's nomination of Larry Potts as FBI deputy director "will further slow down the terrorist legislation and will mean even greater concern over civil liberties, which I don't think is inappropriate." Potts oversaw the 1993 siege at theBranch Davidian compound in Waco, Tx., and the disastrous 1992 shootout...