Mahatma memorial to grace Washington park
Mahatma Gandhi never visited the United States, much less Washington DC, but the city will soon be imbued with the spirit of the Great Soul. President Clinton signed on Monday a bill cleared by the Congress approving construction of a memorial for Mahatma Gandhi.

Belgrade pulls out forces from Kosovo
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, facing a deadline this evening, made a last-minute pullback of his military and police forces in Kosovo in order to avert NATO airstrikes.

Iraq may have used deadly Sarin gas: UN inspectors
Possible degradation or decomposed product of a nerve gas found on Iraqi missile warheads by American, French and Swiss laboratories could have come from deadly VX or Sarin, United Nations weapons inspectors have reported.

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