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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...desperate not to be the ones to bust those 1997 spending caps (the ones on which all those mammoth surpluses are based) or dip into the Social Security trust fund. But they?re also loath to cut into programs that voters want, programs that Clinton can excoriate them for slicing up. So voil? ? the millennium just got a little longer...
...nearly $28 billion in proposed spending from the caps ? largely through "emergency" spending ? even with only a 12-month year. That might be too expedient, even for the Beltway. "There are those in both parties who are saying, ?Enough is enough,?" says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "Nobody wants to be the one to admit it, but the spending caps are going to have to be raised if Congress is ever going to do its books without all the tricks." After all, even a phantom month has to be paid for eventually; putting off the hurt only magnifies...
...police officer has become a mental-health adjunct ever since laws passed in the 1960s required mental wards to release anyone who did not want to stay, unless he or she could be proved dangerous. Massive deinstitutionalization occurred. Since 1969, 93% of psychiatric beds have been emptied across the country, and many of the mentally ill end up in the prison system or fending for themselves. Any other way leads to a legal morass. Zdanowicz says, "You can't force someone into an institution unless a whole bunch of criteria are met." The situation is so dire that if family...
Muscovites are terrified, and that's exactly what the authors of Monday's killer bomb want. Just hours after the blast that killed 116 people and leveled an apartment building, police found two tons of explosives in another Moscow apartment building. Authorities are blaming Chechen terrorists for the attacks. They claim that a Chechen man wanted in connection with last week?s apartment bombing in which 90 people were killed had rented a storage space in the crumpled building, and politicians of every stripe hastened to connect the attacks to the continuing war in Dagestan. "At the same time, though...
Memo to Moscow: Want a bit of cash for those depleted Kremlin coffers? It's easy ? just dust off the missile silos. The U.S. Monday announced a new breakthrough with North Korea, after the two sides agreed at talks in Berlin that Pyongyang would suspend missile tests in exchange for Washington's moving to ease economic sanctions on the impoverished communist state. Thus far, North Korea has agreed only to refrain from firing another missile while talks last, but observers believe it?s the first step toward a comprehensive agreement to end the missile program in exchange for economic assistance...