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...their credit, the hotels did try to negotiate a settlement. Harvard could have assumed some portion of the financial burden, and thereby assumed responsibility for their decision. But the University refused to settle, and instead the case is going to court...
Koresh began to preach that his followers should ready themselves for a final battle with unbelievers. The Waco settlement, once a collection of old cottages scattered around 78 acres of scrub pasture and woods, was consolidated into a compact fort the size of a city block. Having equipped it with an underground bunker and an armory -- adjacent to the chapel -- cult members discussed renaming the place Ranch Apocalypse. Federal agents began tracking frequent shipments of firepower that they say amounted to 8,000 lbs. of ammunition and enough parts to assemble hundreds of automatic and semiautomatic weapons. Some time...
...Clinton team takes a painfully constricted position to the table. Without a threat of Western force, Serbia and Croatia will not accept a fair settlement. Yet the military options Clinton now flashes seem an unlikely check on further Serbian defiance. Christopher's pledge to remain "in the back-ground" while the parties reach their own agreement invites the aggressors to hold on to their claims...
...have very serious humanitarian problems," said a U.S. official. "This should be encouragement for the Bosnians to return to the talks." And by demonstrating that Washington is willing to raise the level of its commitment, the Administration wants to reassure the Bosnians that it will help enforce any political settlement...
McGrath said although the settlement was still "tentative," increases in teachers' salaries and health insurance had been budgeted for the upcoming fiscal year in expectation of an agreement...