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...like Suharto, who is about to have himself selected to his seventh five-year term, Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto can ill afford to offend political cronies. Hashimoto vowed last year to slash Japan's outsize budget deficit, which would rule out any substantial stimulus package. Yet without a healthy Japan to buy their exports, other Asian countries will find it even harder to resume the prosperity they once enjoyed. --By John Greenwald. Reported by Bruce van Voorst/Washington
...November deal that brought UNSCOM inspectors back to Iraq, could be frustrated by his envoys' lack of success this time. Then there's the Duma, which adopted a strongly-worded pro-Iraq resolution Wednesday. Finally, the Russian president has form for such bluff and bluster. Remember his promise to slash Russia's nuclear forces by a third, later dismissed as "tiredness"? Still, in the slide toward crisis, this is one threat Clinton can't afford to ignore...
Business Bytes AT&T announces plans to slash its workforce; on Wall Street, though, all eyes were on the Prez. Dow down 63. The wrap-up in FORTUNE Business Report. Get the numbers by index or stock-by-stock
...suspect allegedly said, "Drop it or I'll slash you." The suspects then took the bike and fled in the direction of Harvard Square...
...Weegee is the poor man's Zapruder, the guy at the scene when the blood is still flowing, recording desperate moments that we can't help wanting to see for ourselves. His picture Victim of Auto Accident Waiting for Doctor is compelling not just because of the jagged diagonal slash of the composition but because it's a picture of a real person boxed into real agonies while some stranger pops a flashgun in her face. Four months after the death of Princess Diana, the picture is impossible to look at without thinking of what it cost the woman...