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...harassment against their neighbors Isidor and Minerva Ramos. They have hurled racial epithets, attacked the Ramos property and threatened bodily harm. Finally, last month, the beleaguered Ramoses filed a federal civil-rights suit demanding $10 million in damages. Instead, U.S. District Court Judge Ann Williams authorized an unprecedented settlement agreement, to be signed this week, under which the Krafts will vacate their home within 180 days. In a delicious turnabout from the normal course of events -- usually it is the minority family that is forced out by racial harassment -- the harassers will be ousted from the neighborhood. Judge Williams' action...
...woman in South Carolina who was accused of drowning her two small children, would not have occurred under a Republican administration. This is the man who in 1984 questioned the patriotism of ten House Democrats when they wrote a letter to Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega calling for a peace settlement between warring factions. Gingrich accuses Clinton of "McGovernism". But under him, the country potentially faces a throwback to McCarthyism...
...recent morning, a neatly typed letter arrived at the offices of CARE in Goma, Zaire, addressed to relief worker Guy Banville and signed by "the refugees of Katale." Katale is a huge Rwandan refugee settlement in a valley north of Goma where the 36-year-old Canadian had been supervising food deliveries for nearly three months. "Frankly," the letter began in French, "it seems to us that you are tired of living." It concluded with a chilling ultimatum: "You must leave the region within 48 hours -- if you value your life. Thank you and bon voyage...
Clinton's four-day, six-country tour, his first foray into the Middle East, taught him just how treacherous a terrain he had entered. He had hoped for a prime-time TV triumph to boost his party's midterm election chances when he seized upon the Israeli-Jordanian settlement to fly off to dramatic presidential appearances in Cairo, Amman, Damascus, Jerusalem, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. He quickly discovered that the Middle East and its problems guarantee not only the world's attention but risks, surprises and, for every misstep, a potential explosion...
...President, even though Syria is still listed by the State Department as a sponsor of terrorism. For his part, Clinton wanted to hear Assad offer public assurances that he opposes the kind of terror Hamas has been inflicting on Israel and that he favors a formal peace settlement of the sort Jordan and Egypt have signed...