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...Director Louis J. Freeh is appealing to thepublic and to Nathan R. to call the toll-freenumber, 1-800-701-BOMB, and provide anyinformation that might be linked to the bomber.The reward is offered for evidence leading to aconviction...
This combination of seeming spontaneity and dogged perfectionism might take its toll on a girl, or even on a middle-aged Midler. That, at least, is a running gag in the Experience the Divine tour. Who needs Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard when Bette does the aging diva right here? She tells us, in a cunning rap song, that she's been compromised, Disneyized, classified, Jurassified. "I don't get out much anymore," she demurely declares, adding that mostly she sits "in my star trailer watching CNN. I know what everyone in Bosnia is wearing." She frets that...
...final death toll stood at 47. Not until Friday afternoon could rescuers retrieve the bodies of three crew members who had been trapped inside the lead locomotive, buried in 15 feet of mud. Miraculously, some passengers managed to escape even from a car totally submerged in the bayou. Bill Crosson, 57, had grabbed his wife Vivian, 52, holding her down so she wouldn't be thrown about as the train fell into the swamp. Water then came rushing in. "It just filled so quickly," he says. "All I could think about was 'we're goners.' " But the couple found...
...summer of paralysis took its toll. Yeltsin's economic-reform program was stuck, his authority under constant challenge, his time consumed in inconclusive dickering with his parliamentary opponents. Fed up, Yeltsin finally laid his claim to power on the line. In a prime-time television address Tuesday evening, he announced he was disbanding the legislature, even if it meant violating the constitution, and called new parliamentary elections for December. Angry Deputies quickly denounced Yeltsin's move as a coup d'etat and set up their own government, led by Vice President Alexander Rutskoi, Yeltsin's most implacable enemy. Suddenly...
...some countries the ideological conflict has developed into a bloody struggle for political dominance. Violence inspired by radicals determined to topple President Hosni Mubarak has killed 200 people in Egypt over the past two years; in Algeria, the government most immediately threatened by fundamentalists, the toll is at least 1,200. Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement, which is the biggest danger to the infant peace process in the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank, is a special case. Its first aim is the destruction of Israel; after achieving that, Hamas would establish a Muslim state on the wreckage...