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...canned Russian perch -- American astronaut Norman Thagard has broken the U.S. space endurance record set by three Skylab astronauts in 1974. Now, he's ready for the green hills of Earth. "I miss my family," said Thagard, who became the first American to be launched on a Russian rocket Mar. 14. "I've got three sons and a wife and two cats, and I like them all and I miss them." Unfortunately, he's got another month to go. One Skylab astronaut, Edward Gibson, today radioed up some moral support: "Norm, keep on trucking...
...rocket attack on Zagreb, the Croatian capital of 1 million people, was the last stage in a classic round of Balkan escalation. It began on April 28 when a Croat stabbed an ethnic Serb motorist to death at a gas station along the highway linking Zagreb to eastern Croatia and Serbia. That crucial route runs through two of the four "U.N.-protected areas" that roughly correspond to the self-proclaimed "Republic of Serb Krajina" in Croatia. The Serbs answered the killing by blocking off the highway and slaying three Croatian drivers...
...storage shed in Herington, and McVeigh said, "If I don't come back in a while, you'll clean out the storage shed." When authorities searched a locker believed to have been rented by McVeigh in September 1994, it was empty. Nichols' home, however, yielded a 60-mm antitank rocket, 33 firearms and nonelectric detonators, four 55-gal. plastic drums, literature about Waco, antitax and antigovernment pamphlets and three empty 50-lb. bags of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, the material used in Oklahoma...
...going to happen" three days before the Oklahoma City bombing. In a hearing today Terry Nichols testified that McVeigh spoke to him three days before the April 19 bombing and asked to be picked up in Oklahoma City. The FBI confiscated 33 firearms and a 60mm anti-tank rocket from Nichols' home, as well as some blasting mechanisms. Federal workers across the country joined people inOklahoma Cityfor a moment of silence at 9:02 CDT, the time the bomb went off exactly a week before. In Washington, President Clinton attended the funeral of a former member of his Secret Service...
...Congressmen walked out of a joint session at which he pleaded for unity. Late in the afternoon of April 28 (early morning of the 29th in Saigon), Kissinger's deputy Brent Scowcroft burst into a meeting of Ford with his energy and economic advisers, bearing a message about the rocket and artillery attacks on Tan Son Nhut. The President called an emergency meeting of his National Security Council and issued an order. At 10:51 a.m., April 29, in Saigon, Armed Forces Radio burst forth with White Christmas. That was the signal that Option IV, the helicopter lift...