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...encores were Foday Musa Suso's "Tilliboyo" ("Sunset") and John Oswald's "Specter," the former a pleasant African tune rendered in amplified pizzicato, the latter a terrifying essay in electric feedback. The enthusiastic crowd of 800 was reluctant to cease its applause...
...scores of narrowcast channels devoted to arcana like needlepointing or fly fishing fracture whatever remains of a mass $ culture, leaving Americans with little common ground for discourse? Or will the slots be given over to endless rebroadcasts of a handful of hit movies and TV shows - raising the nightmarish specter of the Terminator saying "I'll be back" every few minutes...
...without Yeltsin could decide to withdraw its support of sanctions in Yugoslavia and instead back the Serbs in their bloody campaign for territory. A new regime could decide to reannex the Baltic states, repair relations with Iraq or refuse to honor approval of the START 2 disarmament treaty. The specter of renewed confrontation with a conservative, nationalist Russia that might attempt to revive the ways of the Soviet empire -- forcing the U.S. to give up the defense savings it had meant to use to finance domestic economic recovery -- helped make the case with the American people...
...parents and their stern self-reliance. Beyond declaring support for strong gun-control laws, she had little specific to say about policy. She stressed the need for social programs to keep children from turning to crime but also affirmed the necessity of punishment for "horrible" criminals. Republicans Arlen Specter and Orrin Hatch, ogres to feminists because of their hostile questioning of Anita Hill, gushed admiration for Reno, and the committee suspended its rules in order to vote immediately -- and unanimously -- for confirmation. So did the full Senate, 98 to 0, the next day. On Friday, Reno was sworn in, filling...
...throughout the region, forcing thousands of civilians into frigid mountain terrain. Despite the airlift's pressure on the advancing Serbs to move pre- emptively, U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher insisted that "we have no indication" it sparked the rout. The United Nations Commissioner for Refugees, however, raised the specter of a Serb "massacre" of Muslims. At week's end Serb commanders offered to allow safe passage to fleeing civilians, a move that could save lives but would also amount to what a U.N. official called "taxi service for the policy of ethnic cleansing." (See related story on page...