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Johannesburg, S. Africa
Gummen fired on a commuter van in a black township outside Johannesburg and set it ablaze on Wednesday, killing six people and wounding one person, police said.
Six killed in continuing violence
Another victim was found stabbed in a nearby Tokoza township on Wednesday, bringing the death toll in a new outbreak of Black faction fighting to 24 since Monday.
The factional fighting, largely between supporters of the African National Congress and the rival Inkatha Freedom Party, has claimed more than 6,000 lives in the past five years.
Leaders of the two leading Black opposition groups and the white minority government signed a peace agreement Sept. 14 that established codes of conduct for political groups and security forces.
Washington
U. S. considers arms reduction plan
The Bush Administration has neither accepted nor rejected Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's plan that NATO put its store of air-launchers on the ground and stored storage from the Pentagon said Thursday.
"We're looking at it," Peter Williams told reporters when queried about the suggestion.
Among other things, Bush proposed the removal from Europe of land-based tactical nuclear weapons — nuclear artillery shells and warheads for Lance short-range missiles.
Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is expected to deal with the issue during meetings Saturday in Vienna with Vladimir Lobov, the chairman of the Soviet general staff.
Washington
Panel to investigate bad checks
Six House Ethics Committee members, none tainted by a rubber check-writing scandal, will form a subcommittee to investigate the chamber' s bank and their colleagues who abused the facility.
Committee leaders said Wednesday that there were no plans to hire outside legal or banking experts or to go public anytime soon with their clients who wrote bad checks without penalty.
But they defended the committee's past willingness to be harsh with members who broke the rules. The leaders vowed there would be no cover-up this time.
The Associated Press
Women unite against political indifference
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The sexual harassment allegations against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas have laid bare a gulf in male-female perceptions in Washington, where the corridors of power have always been a man's domain.
Women say the way the Thomas matter unfolded proves that the "old boy" network is alive and well and trying to sweep Anita Hill's allegations under the rug.
Men are asking if they are being unfairly tarred with unintended motives and wondering whether their own words and actions could be misconstrued in the new environment.
When are words of offensive? When is a hand on the shoulder harassment?
Members of Congress reported an avalanche of phone calls to their offices when the Senate appeared ready to vote Tuesday on Thomas's nomination despite Hill's claims that Thomas repeatedly made sexually explicit remarks to her when they worked together nearly a decade ago.
"It touched something inside a lot of women," said Barbara, Barbara Dox, C- Calif., who said her calls
were 10 to 1 in favor of postponing the vote until after the allegations were aired fully.
Many women interviewed for this story said men simply "do not get it" and fail to understand why women are so agitated about the Hill-Thomas situation.
ANALYSIS
"I do not know a woman who has not had experience with sexual harassment at one time or another," said Eleanor Holmes Norton, the Democratic delegate to Congress from the District of Columbia.
"Women see this as an absolute insensitivity to the indignities they're subjected to," said Harriet Woods, executive director of the National Women's Political Caucus.
Some men such as Sen. Paul Simon, D-III., agreed that Hill's charges would have received more serious attention if women sat on the Senate Judiciary Committee that considered his nomination.
The Hill-Thomas situation has created a solidarity of purpose among women on Capitol Hill that one staffer described as a "high-five" atmosphere.
The Associated Press
Yugoslavian, Croatian pact called solution to civil war
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Yugoslavia's army agreed in principle yesterday to withdraw from Croatia within a month, and Croatian militants pledged to train cadets of army barracks in the missionary republic.
At the same time, the combatants agreed to negotiate a political settlement to the civil war that would address the grievances of the Serbian minority in Kosovo and to avoid an invasion by Hans van den Brook, who announced the agreement.
Van den Broek spoke after five hours of talks with the leaders of Croatia, Serbia and the federal military at a European Community-led peace conference in The Hague.
The accord appeared to offer the best chance yet for halting the 3½-year-month-old civil war in Cretia, which has pitted Crown militants against ethnic Tatar groups and led by Syriza and the Serbian-dominated federal army.
would be observed by fighters in the battlefield, who have ignored eight previous cease-fires.
More than 600 people are known to have died since June 25, when Croatia declared independence along with neighboring Slovenia. Croatia reported more casualties from clashes yesterday in the eastern part of the republic.
Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and the federal defense minister, Gen. Veljko Kadjiciv, both said they accepted the agreement. But Tudjman insisted Croatia be treated as a sovereign republic in the negotiations, and Kadijiciv linked the army pullout to progress on the political front.
But it was unclear if the latest peace agreement
"If what was discussed today is translated into reality, there is a good chance for the settlement of the Yugoslav crisis to be done by political means," Kadievic said.
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic called the one-month deadline a realistic framework but added that all parties in the crisis must fully contribute to the settlement.
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