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...called Freemen compound has been quietly put up for sale by the federal Farm Service Agency. Ralph Clark's 960-acre home, which he called Justus Township, was the site of the 81-day standoff that ended June 13. Clark, whose father acquired the property in 1926, quit making payments on his federal farm loans in 1982. Debt and interest on the place swelled to $2.5 million. Asking price for the Freemen headquarters: $150,000. But bargain-hunting land barons and roadside-attraction speculators can forget it: only "beginning farmers/ranchers" are eligible to apply for the screening process, the buyer...
...reaction to the April proposal by President Clinton and President Kim Young-sam of South Korea, though China's first, non-committal comments were promising. TIME's Jaime FlorCruz reports from Beijing that today's acceptance is another sign of the warming in Sino-American relations since the tense standoff this March in the Taiwan Strait during Taiwan's first democratic presidential election. The acceptance also indicates China's interest in playing a positive role in global diplomacy. "It is an issue of stature for China," FlorCruz says. "It is a way of showing its importance in the global diplomatic...
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina: After a weekend standoff between U.S. soldiers and Bosnian Serbs that culminated with the Serbs threatening to fire on American helicopters, Serbs shot at six Portuguese U.N. troops Monday. No one was injured in the two incidents, but they mark the heightening tensions in the Serb-controlled area of Han Pijesak, headquarters of Bosnian Serb commander General Ratko Mladic, who was indicted for genocide by the Bosnia war crimes tribunal. The Portuguese soldiers were heading east of Sarajevo to deliver food supplies when several shots were fired from nearby woods, hitting the last vehicle in the convoy...
Last summer, the Harvard Police Union signed a three-year contract a full month before the old deal was set to expire. The speed of the negotiations stood in marked contrast to the previous round, which resulted in a bitter two-year standoff before an agreement could be reached...
Similar in content to a recent proposal by Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, Lewis' letter to PBHA President Andrew J. Ehrlich '97 outlined the College's position in the standoff...