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YELTSIN ENDS "SOJOURN...
Russian President Boris Yeltsin ended what his presidential news service called a "sojourn in a sanatorium" and returned to the Kremlin after two months of treatment and rest for acute coronary ischemia (restricted blood flow to the heart). Prior to his public appearance in the Kremlin, Yeltsin quickly met with Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin to map out potential strategies to deal with the strong showing of the Communist Party in the Dec. 17 parliamentary elections...
...Exodus took place. No record of this monumental event appears in Egyptian chronicles of the time, and Israeli archaeologists combing the Sinai during intense searches from 1967 to 1982 - years when Israel occupied the peninsula - didn't find a single piece of evidence backing the Israelites' supposed 40-year sojourn in the desert...
...time of the verdict, the Sojourn shelter, which Nicole Simpson had phoned five days before her death, frightened that her husband was going to kill her, got only two media calls instead of hundreds--and no more than the usual level of hot-line inquiries, reports Carol Arnett, coordinator of the Los Angeles County Domestic Violence Council. Shortly after the murders, Arnett received a state grant of $22 million for new facilities and programs, but she expects that could be "a one-shot deal." With domestic violence dropping off the screen, she has decided to talk about the council...
Nonetheless, for most of the women who had come from far corners of the earth to express their solidarity, even a damp sojourn under a heavy official hand proved exhilarating. If Clinton did not impress a delegate, perhaps Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto did, or Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi, who appeared in a specially recorded videotape that was smuggled out of Rangoon...