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Croatian forces are withdrawing from around the Bosnian Serb stronghold of Banja Luka after meeting stiff resistance. Wednesday, Serb President Slobodan Milosevic apparently sent 1,000 paramilitary troops under Zeljko Raznatovic, or "Arkan," to reinforce the city. The United States considers Arkan a possible war criminal, and says he's responsible for some of the worst atrocities in the Balkan war. "Arkan started out as a big-time bank robber in Europe years ago," reports TIME's Edward Barnes. "He would literally just walk in and point a gun at someone. Later he did political killings for the old Yugoslav...
CLINTON: A WORKING STIFF AGAIN...
Faced with stiff opposition from both the right and the left, Senate majority leader Bob Dole reluctantly put off action on the G.O.P. leadership's much touted welfare-reform plan (which has already passed the House). Conservative Republicans, including rival presidential aspirant Phil Gramm, are demanding tougher provisions penalizing unwed mothers, especially those who are teenagers. Democrats are insisting on more generous job-training and child-care provisions...
Competition in this f all's City Council election will be stiff as 20 Cambridge residents campaign completed nomination papers by the July 31 deadline for the nine available council seats...
Chronicle is adapted from a novella by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Set in an "isolated Latin American town," it's a tale of stiff-backed, implacable male pride. A handsome groom (Alexandre Proia), on discovering that his lovely bride (Saundra Santiago) is no virgin, initiates a chain of retribution that leads to a tragedy and ramifies through town, blighting one life after another...