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...Senate's vanishing political middle shrank further when influential Kansas moderate Nancy Landon Kassebaum announced she would retire next year to pursue "the challenge of being a grandmother." She becomes the 10th Senator, and the second Republican, to leave office in 1996. In the House, Indiana Democrat Andrew Jacobs announced he would step down, the 18th Representative and 15th Democrat...
With help, and the occasional shove, from groups of foreign advisers, Aristide has taken steps to make a broken and bankrupt nation viable again. The economy, which shrank 30% from 1991 to 1994, mostly because of international sanctions against Cadras, is growing at a healthy pace of 4.5% a year. The inflation rate stands at 25%, less than half the level of a year ago. Factories and other businesses are reopening. Though once a committed socialist, Aristide has agreed to International Monetary Fund and World Bank demands that he reduce tariffs, limit the scope of government involvement in the economy...
...always put a lot of faith in the people who lead. The leaders who had assumed the role of the political prophets from my childhood, however, had nothing to say. No one was creating direction. President Clinton vacillated between bellicose threats of NATO air-strikes, as the United Nations shrank under the pressure of the Serbian army. The Western world deplored the actions of the Serbian army as barbaric, but it could not formulate a coherent policy. As the despotic, maniacal Serbian General Ratko Mladic surrounds, strangles and slaughters one U.N. "safe area" after another, Western leaders quibbled...
While the majority of Allied soldiers shrank from atrocity, a few were not averse to inflicting on the Japanese the horrors that had been visited on their comrades. In Tennozan, George Feifer cites Marine memories of barbaric acts against "the Japs" on Okinawa. The dead were cut up in search of souvenirs; soldiers, surrendering unarmed, were shot. Elsewhere, hospital ships were sunk and prisoners tortured. In 1946 Edgar Jones wrote in the Atlantic Monthly: "What kind of war do civilians suppose we fought, anyway? We shot prisoners in cold blood, wiped out hospitals, strafed lifeboats, killed or mistreated enemy civilians...
...greatest and most terrible of wars ended this week in the echoes of an enormous event -- an event so much more enormous that, relative to it, the war itself shrank to minor significance." With those words fifty years ago, TIME Magazine reported theexplosion of a nuclear bomb in Hiroshima. On Sunday,Japan will solemnly commemorate the devastation. Hiroshima, then just a medium-sized city in southern Japan, wasdestroyed in seconds in one blinding flash. More than 100,000 people, nearly half of Hiroshima's population, perished immediately. Tens of thousands more died later of injuries sustained in the searing blast...