Safeguarding Nuclear Fuel Seen as Worth the Price
The Clinton administration secretly bought half a ton of weapons grade uranium from Kazakhstan, shipping it to the United States and storing it at Oak Ridge. Critics question who pays and the risks, while officials argue the deal strengthens national security and reduces proliferation danger.
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Clinton
Kazakhstan
United States
White House
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U.S
Washington
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Iran
North Korea
Russia
State Department
Moscow
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Pursuit of Equal Justice in Immigrant Journalist Murders
The Committee to Protect Journalists cites that twelve U S journalists were killed in the 1980s with ten immigrants among them and eight cases unsolved. Law enforcement coordination and immigrant community understanding are flagged as weak. Attorney General Reno pledges renewed investigations.
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United States
Committee To Protect Journalists
Janet Reno
Frivolous Lawsuits Spark US Legal Reform Interest
A column recalls infamous frivolous suits from hot coffee spillage to seat size complaints and asks whether inmate lawsuits burden state budgets. It notes a proposed Common Sense Legal Reform Act by Rep. Jim Ramstad to cap damages and require losers to pay winners' legal fees to deter frivolous claims.
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America
Jim Ramstad
Best and Worst of 1994 in Washington D C
Washington’s Sandy Grady surveys 1994 with a TV clicker lens listing top flops andels from OJ Simpson to Clinton and Gingrich. He caps with a tease for 1995 noting political games and media stunts amid a year of trauma and trivia.
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Nancy Kerrigan
John Bobbitt
Rwanda
L.A
South Carolina
CIA
Bill Clinton
Usair
Newt Gingrich
Chuck
Generation X
Henry Kissinger
Richard Nixon
Ted Kennedy
Jacqueline Onassis
Tony Coelho
Ronald Reagan
Coelho
Kurt Cobain
Nita M. Lowey
D-N.y
Charlton Heston
Moses
U.S. Senate
Alfonso D'Amato
R-N.c
McDonald
Jesse Helms
Clinton
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Helms
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Oliver North
Jerry Falwell
Phillies
Steve Carlton
Zurich
Newt
White House
Martin Hoke
Ohio
D.C
Marion Barry
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Eleanor
Faye Resnick
Nicole Simpson
Michael Jackson
Lisa Marie Presley
Elvis
Nelson Mandela
Hope
Northern Ireland
North Korea
Hai
GOP splits map the future of the Republican Party
Dallas Morning News columnist William McKenzie examines three GOP camps Senate House and governors. He notes clashes over a line item veto term limits welfare reform and the balanced budget amendment. Governors may shape the party's dominant path in the coming months.
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Oklahoma
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Hatch
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Newt Gingrich
Washington
Nancy Kassebaum
R-Kan
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Bob Dole
Pete Domenici
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Robert Packwood
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Pete Wilson
California
John Engler
Michigan
Christine Todd Whitman
New Jersey
George W. Bush
William McKenzie
Dallas Morning News
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