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1993 Institutions strip Hubertus Strughold of honors ai_extracted 1 cit. no story State University. When Jewish and Holocaust-survivor groups, led by the Anti-Defamation League, discovered the honors extended to Strughold, they objected. Ohio State University removed its mural in 1993. The U.S. Air Force changed its library’s name in 1995.25 In 2003, the state of New Mexico still ●●

1993 All of this changed when PASOK came to power in 1993, and the party took control of temporary teache rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story All of this changed when PASOK came to power in 1993, and the party took control of temporary teacher postings and used them to reward its own party followers. ●●

1993 In 1993 she demanded that a project intended to demonstrate the effectiveness of voluntary family... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1993 she demanded that a project intended to demonstrate the effectiveness of voluntary family planning not be subject to the national policy of birth quotas and penalties, threatening otherwise... ●●

1993 This was one important reason that it failed ignominiously to get through Congress in 1993 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story This was one important reason that it failed ignominiously to get through Congress in 1993. ●●

1993 In a 1993 interview with the Canadian Broadcasting rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In a 1993 interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, he declared, “The coup was justified by the human rights ●●

1993 Constant—who has told in detail of having attended, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Constant—who has told in detail of having attended, on invitation, the Clinton inau- guration balls—was the organizer of ●●

1993 In 1993 they were off attacking Somalia, trying rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1993 they were off attacking Somalia, trying to rearrange the country’s political map, more bombing and killing ●●

1993 US bombs Iraq over Bush assassination plot ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Government Assassination Plots On June 26, 1993, the United States carried out a bombing attack on Iraq in retal- iation ●●

1993 ), 345 Wilson, Edwin, 287 Wilson, William, 286 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ), 345 Wilson, Edwin, 287 Wilson, William, 286 Wisner, Frank, 56, 99 Wolfowitz, Paul, 321 Woolsey, James, 392 World Bank ●●

1993 AOL opens its members to the Internet ai_extracted 1 cit. no story AOL opened a portal in September 1993 giving members access to Internet newsgroups, triggering the 'Eternal September.' ●●

1993 Congress passes the National Information Infrastructure Act ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After becoming vice president, Gore pushed legislation that opened the Internet to commercial and public use. ●●

1993 Andreessen announces the Mosaic browser ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Marc Andreessen posted the announcement of Mosaic on the www-talk Internet newsgroup. ●●

1993 Mir Amal Kasi shoots CIA employees outside Langley ai_extracted 1 cit. On January 25, 1993, Pakistani Mir Amal Kasi opened fire on CIA employees waiting at the entrance to the agency's Langley headquarters, killing two and wounding three, then fled to Pakistan. The CIA devoted much of its remaining Afghan network to hunting him. ●●

1993 Ramzi Yousef bombs the World Trade Center ai_extracted 1 cit. On February 26, 1993, Ramzi Yousef, trained in Afghan jihadist camps, detonated a truck bomb beneath the World Trade Center, killing six and injuring about a thousand. His network of "ad hoc" mobile jihadists marked, to CIA analysts, a new kind of stateless terrorism. ●●●

1994 to 1995 Credit creation turns negative and nominal GDP shrinks ai_extracted 1 cit. Bank credit creation turned negative in late 1994, producing negative nominal GDP growth in early 1995, the first such contraction in postwar history and the first since 1931. ●●●

1994 to March 1995 Record foreign exchange intervention to weaken the yen ai_extracted 1 cit. In late 1994 MoF turned to exchange rate policy, ordering the BoJ to buy dollars: $7 billion in the second half of 1994 and $19 billion in February and March 1995, lifting Japan's reserves to a world-leading $131 billion. ●●●

December 1994 Matsushita appointed governor with Fukui as deputy ai_extracted 1 cit. In December 1994 MoF alumnus Yasuo Matsushita succeeded Mieno as Bank of Japan governor, with BoJ insider Toshihiko Fukui as deputy governor; the author reports Matsushita was shielded from decisions on credit creation. ●●

1994 Mieno retires and lobbies for a new Bank of Japan Law ai_extracted 1 cit. After retiring in 1994, former governor Mieno devoted much of his public life to lobbying in speeches and meetings for a change in the Bank of Japan Law. ●●

1994 Uruguay Round Agreements Act creates the WTO ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Clinton used Fast Track to submit the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, passed by the Senate on December 1, 1994. It provided for creation of the World Trade Organization. ●●

1994 NAFTA becomes law ai_extracted 1 cit. no story NAFTA became law on January 1, 1994 after passing the House 234-200 and the Senate 61-38 under Fast Track procedures. ●●

1994 Strong and Gorbachev create the Earth Charter ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1994 Maurice Strong and Mikhail Gorbachev created the Earth Charter, which Wood says many viewed as a prototype constitution for the New World Order. ●●

1994 Rubin rescues Mexico in the peso crisis ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Ahamed compares the 1928 halt in U.S. capital to Europe with the 1994 Mexican peso crisis. Unlike Germany in 1929, Mexico had a savior: Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin arranged a $50 billion emergency credit to forestall default. ●●

1994 White House ignores Rwanda genocide warning ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The White House brushed aside a CIA study warning that half a million people might die in Rwanda. The conflict exploded into one of the great man-made disasters of the century. ●●

1994 Aldrich Ames arrested for spying ai_extracted 1 cit. no story FBI agents arrested CIA counterintelligence officer Aldrich Ames, who had spied for the Soviets for nearly nine years. His betrayal had exposed and killed America's spies inside the Soviet Union. ●●

1994 Year 1994: Prosecutors in Argentina asserted that they ordere rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Prosecutors in Argentina asserted that they ordered one of the most heinous anti-Semitic crimes of the post-Holocaust era, the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos... ●●

1994 Year 1994: See also communism anti-Semitism Buenos Aires bo rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story See also communism anti-Semitism Buenos Aires bombing (1994) Reza Shah Arab conquest Arachosians Aramash, Ahmad Aramco Arbenz, Jacobo Archimedes Argentina Aristotle Arm... ●●

1994 Year 1994: See Secret Intelligence Service (MI U.K.) Buenos rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story See Secret Intelligence Service (MI U.K.) Buenos Aires bombing (1994) Butler, R. ●●

1994 If you had invested $10 million in Long-Term in March 1994, it would have been rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story If you had invested $10 million in Long-Term in March 1994, it would have been worth just over $40 million four years later. ●●

1994 Germany recognizes the Oder-Neisse border with Poland ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The reunited Germany formally recognized the Oder-Neisse border with Poland in the mid-1990s, removing Poland's main reservation regarding closer relations with Germany. ●●

1994 questions was executed by the state rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story questions was executed by the state of Illinois on May 10, 1994. ●●

1994 Clinton offers new NATO vision at 1994 summit ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Going back to Wilson’s historical objection to alliances—because they were based on the expectation of confrontation—President Clinton has used the occasion of a NATO summit in January 1994 to offer an alternative vision. ●●

1994 Iron Man cartoon depicts Twin Towers attack ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The 1994 Iron Man cartoon episode titled The Grim Reaper Wears a Teflon Coat featured a simulated attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon. ●●

1994 1994: 112 LARRY PAGE, SERGEY BRIN, AND SEARCH When Justin Hall c... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 112 LARRY PAGE, SERGEY BRIN, AND SEARCH When Justin Hall created his quirky home page in January 1994, there were only seven hundred websites in the world. By the end of that year there were ten thous ●●

1994 1994: in 2011, they named her Ada, after Lady Lovelace. 112 LARRY PAGE, SERG rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story in 2011, they named her Ada, after Lady Lovelace. 112 LARRY PAGE, SERGEY BRIN, AND SEARCH When Justin Hall created his quirky home page in January 199 ●●

1994 Congress, July 26, 1994, online archive of the Yitzhak Rabin Center rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Parliament), Fars News Agency, as translated and excerpted in KGS NightWatch news report, May 26, 2014. Administration spokesmen: David Remnick, “Going the Distance,” New Yorker, January 27, 2014. “Today we are embarking”: Address by Yitzhak Rabin to ●●

1994 Consider, for example, their coverage of the passage of the North Amer... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Consider, for example, their coverage of the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the subsequent Mexican financial crisis and meltdown of 1994–95. ●●

1994 And while labor was attacked for its alleged position on these issues,... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story And while labor was attacked for its alleged position on these issues, the press refused to allow the actual position to be expressed.109 In December 1994, only eleven months after NAFTA went into ef ●●

1994 in 1953 to give the first public presentation rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story in 1953 to give the first public presentation on the DNA double helix, which he had codiscovered with Francis Crick. Watson became director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 1968, and president in 1994. In February of 2003, the lab hosted an international celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of ●●

1994 24 The increase in employer testing since the rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 24 The increase in employer testing since the Human Genome Project was completed in June 2000 can only be imagined. How each company will use its information is neither standardized nor regulated. In 1994, investigators discovered that the University of California’s Lawrence Berkeley Lab went furthe ●●

1994 China's 1994 tax reform reshapes local finance ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The 1994 tax reform took away many of those revenues and forced local governments into a different type of fiscal discipline that encouraged them to promote a more market-friendly form of industrial development. ●●

1994 13 Dingxin Zhao and Hongxing Yang argue that the 1994 tax reform was a good illustration of the aut rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 13 Dingxin Zhao and Hongxing Yang argue that the 1994 tax reform was a good illustration of the autonomy of the Chinese state. ●●

1994 , Civil Law in Qing and Republican China (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994). rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story , Civil Law in Qing and Republican China (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994). ●●

1994 See also Mary Ann Glendon, A Nation Under Lawyers: How the Crisis in the Legal Profession Is Transfo rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story See also Mary Ann Glendon, A Nation Under Lawyers: How the Crisis in the Legal Profession Is Transforming American Society (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994). ●●

1994 Population control displaced at 1994 UN conference ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A new consensus, the fruit of long struggle, would finally displace population control at the last United Nations popu- lation conference in 1994. ●●

1994 In 1993 she demanded that a project intended to demonstrate the effectiveness of voluntary family... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1993 she demanded that a project intended to demonstrate the effectiveness of voluntary family planning not be subject to the national policy of birth quotas and penalties, threatening otherwise... ●●

1994 Catholic Church (continued) 149, 152, 159, 176, 186–187, 194, 195, 267–269, 277, 278, 301, 304– 3... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Catholic Church (continued) 149, 152, 159, 176, 186–187, 194, 195, 267–269, 277, 278, 301, 304– 305, 313, 328, 331, 339, 352, 353, 363, 364–366, 367, 368, 375, 377; and eugenics, 53–54, 85–86, 163,... ●●

1994 “Muslim Preachers in Egypt Condemn Population Conference,” New York Times, August 22, 1994, A9; R... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story “Muslim Preachers in Egypt Condemn Population Conference,” New York Times, August 22, 1994, A9; Robert Fisk, “‘Holy Alliance’ Tries to Wreck Birth-Control Conference,” Independent, August 31, 1994,... ●●

1994 McLeod, “Abortion Fight Dominates Cairo Meeting,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 6, 1994, A1;... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story McLeod, “Abortion Fight Dominates Cairo Meeting,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 6, 1994, A1; Brundtland, “Key-Note Address to the ICPD,” September 5, 1994, “International Conference on Populat... ●●

1994 Mohtarama Benazir Bhutto,” September 5, 1994, all in www.un.org/popin/ icpd/conference/gov. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Mohtarama Benazir Bhutto,” September 5, 1994, all in www.un.org/popin/ icpd/conference/gov. ●●

1994 Socialism in Kenya and Tanzania (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1994), p rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Socialism in Kenya and Tanzania (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1994), p. ●●

1994 o4 “No German judge could, with the present rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story o4 “No German judge could, with the present evidence, put the two suspects into jail,” declared Volker Rath, German gove ●●

1994 By 1994, we could read in the Los rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By 1994, we could read in the Los Angeles Times, by their most anti-communist for- eign correspondent: Living conditions ●●

1994 Justin Hall launches an early personal website ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Swarthmore freshman Justin Hall put up an early personal home page, an ancestor of blogging. ●●

1994 Stanford students name their web guide Yahoo! ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Two Stanford graduate students renamed their web guide 'Yahoo!' by the end of 1994. ●●

1994 Taliban emerge in Kandahar under Mullah Omar ai_extracted 1 cit. The Taliban first surfaced as a small vigilante militia near Kandahar in the spring and summer of 1994, funded by about $250,000 from local businessmen and led by the one-eyed cleric Mullah Mohammed Omar. They promised to disarm the predatory warlords who had made the roads lawless. ●●●

1994 Taliban seize the city of Kandahar ai_extracted 1 cit. In November 1994, aided by a captured ISI weapons dump at Spin Boldak, the Taliban took the entire city of Kandahar in about a day. Mullah Omar occupied the governor's headquarters and the movement soon controlled the airport, tanks, and MiG fighters. ●●●

c. 1994 Displaced families are blocked from returning after the 1990s clashes 2 cit. After the first multiparty election cycle, many families driven from Rift Valley and western Kenya could not safely return to farms and homes. Human Rights Watch documented repeated attacks on returnees, security-operation zones around places such as Burnt Forest, Molo and Londiani, and state harassment of displaced people and relief workers. The point is structural: election violence changed settlement patterns and then made return dangerous. politics / society / war ●●●

March 1995 Yen hits postwar high of 79.75 ai_extracted 2 cit. In March 1995 the Bank of Japan oversterilized the Ministry of Finance's record foreign exchange intervention, sending the yen to its postwar high of 79.75 per dollar and dealing a severe blow to the economy. ●●●

1995 Yen surges to around 80 per dollar ai_extracted 1 cit. By mid-1995 the yen had risen to around 80 to the dollar, its peak coming in April 1995, squeezing exporters as Japan's recession dragged on. ●●●

19 April 1995 Yen hits historic high of 79.75 per dollar ai_extracted 1 cit. Despite unprecedented intervention, the yen rose 20 percent from January to April 1995 and hit a historic high of 79.75 to the dollar on April 19, 1995, which the author attributes to the BoJ's sharp reduction of credit creation. ●●●

1995 Unemployment reaches a postwar high ai_extracted 1 cit. In the first quarter of 1995 Japanese unemployment reached a postwar high, with the actual number of jobless probably topping five million by early 1996 and recession-related suicides also at a postwar high. ●●●

1995 Japan's overseas production exceeds exports ai_extracted 1 cit. In financial year 1995, for the first time, Japan produced more abroad than it exported from its own shores, reflecting the mass relocation of factories driven by the strong yen. ●●

April 1995 Far-reaching deregulation package announced ai_extracted 1 cit. In April 1995, after the yen's historic high of 80 to the dollar and amid economic slump, reformers broke bureaucratic resistance and a deregulation package of one thousand items was announced, followed later that year by a Deregulation White Paper. ●●●

1995 Product liability law favors consumers ai_extracted 1 cit. Japan's 1995 product liability law explicitly favored consumers for the first time, placing the burden of proof on manufacturers in disputes. ●●

1995 to September 1998 First Japanese bond bubble ai_extracted 1 cit. Japan's first bond bubble began in early 1995 with benchmark yields at 4.7 percent and lasted until September 1998, by which time yields had fallen four hundred basis points to 0.7 percent, giving large banks significant capital gains. ●●

1995 Global Biodiversity Assessment published ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The 1,140-page Global Biodiversity Assessment was published by the U.N. Environment Programme in 1995, expanding on Agenda 21. ●●

1995 Judith Hanna proposes a single carbon currency ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1995 Judith Hanna published "Toward a Single Carbon Currency" in New Scientist, proposing a global annual fossil-fuel quota shared equally among adults. Wood cites it as an early modern call for a carbon-based currency echoing 1930s Technocracy. ●●

1995 Gatto cites 1995 terrorism death figures ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto cites U.S. State Department figures that 1995 saw about 300 terrorist murders worldwide, contrasting this with 400,000 U.S. smoking deaths to argue fears of terrorism are exaggerated. ●●

1995 Benson, Vermont rejects its school budget twelve times ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto reports that in 1995 the town of Benson, Vermont voted down its proposed school budget for the twelfth time, setting a record. He reads the revolt as taxpayers rejecting a system they no longer saw as their own. ●●

1995 Sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A religious cult released sarin gas in the Tokyo subway, killing twelve and injuring thousands. It signaled terrorism's shift from nation-states to self-anointed groups. ●●

1995 Oklahoma City bombing rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. A bomb destroyed the federal headquarters in Oklahoma City, killing 169 people. It was the deadliest attack on American territory since Pearl Harbor. ●●

1995 Srebrenica massacre missed by CIA ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A spy satellite photographed Serb gunmen guarding prisoners outside Srebrenica, but no one at the CIA looked at the image for three weeks. Eight thousand people were killed in the worst mass murder in Europe since the Nazi death camps. ●●

1995 CIA deploys Predator drones to Bosnia ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The CIA deployed unmanned Predator reconnaissance drones secretly to Bosnia in 1995. ●●

1995 Mitch Horowitz discovers The Secret Teachings of All Ages rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Mitch Horowitz, about twenty-five years before writing the Seeker's Guide, was recommended The Secret Teachings of All Ages while at lunch in New York City. He immediately obtained a copy and spent the night reading it, finding himself transformed by the experience. ●●

1995 Yeltsin issues official CIS policy document ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In September 1995, President Yeltsin issued an official document on Russian policy toward the CIS that established Russia's imperial restoration goals and determination to maintain dominance. ●●

1995 Information history in 1995 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ♦ MEANWHILE THE CHAPPES MANAGED: Gerard J. Holzmann and Björn Pehrson, The Early History of Data Networks (Washington, D. ●●

1995 Japanese women have been able to tap newly created Web sites devoted t... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Japanese women have been able to tap newly created Web sites devoted to their problems, where they can talk and share experiences and information with their peers and obtain expert advice on business, ●●

1995 Closely related was the theme that we were protecting “South Vietnam” ... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Closely related was the theme that we were protecting “South Vietnam” and the “South Vietnamese,” who “let the Americans take over the fighting” (editorial, Washington Post, April 30, 1995). ●●

1995 Financial crisis or panic rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Bankruptcy 1995: The Coming Collapse of America and How to Stop It ●●

1995 Lewa Downs ranch becomes the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy 3 cit. The Craig family converts the whole of Lewa Downs, a former colonial cattle ranch of roughly 62,000 acres, into the not-for-profit Lewa Wildlife Conservancy. Lewa becomes a flagship of the model in which a settler-era ranch is reworked as a wildlife and tourism enterprise. It records strong rhino and elephant numbers and funds schools and clinics in nearby communities. economy / environment ●●●

1995 Taliban capture Herat and turn toward Kabul ai_extracted 1 cit. When Herat fell to the Taliban in September 1995, the movement controlled all of southern Afghanistan. Backed by Pakistani intelligence, weapons, and volunteers from border madrassas, Mullah Omar's militia then announced its intention to march on Kabul. ●●

1995 Riyadh bombing by bin Laden-inspired Afghan veterans ai_extracted 1 cit. In November 1995 a bombing in Riyadh, carried out by Afghan-war veterans inspired by bin Laden, caught Saudi intelligence by surprise. Prince Turki's service had been focused almost entirely on Iranian and Shiite threats, leaving the Sunni jihadist danger underestimated. ●●

c. 1995 The cut-flower boom around Lake Naivasha 6 cit. From the 1990s Kenya became one of the world's largest exporters of cut flowers, most grown around Lake Naivasha and flown to European markets. Horticulture joined tea and coffee as a top foreign-exchange earner. It extended, rather than changed, the pattern of exporting fresh raw produce and importing finished goods. diplomacy / economy ●●

1996 Brief recovery of 1996 ai_extracted 1 cit. Unexpectedly, the Japanese economy staged a sudden recovery in 1996, growing around 4 percent, but the upturn was not sustained and the economy slumped again in 1997 and 1998. ●●

1996 Big Bang financial deregulation conceded ai_extracted 1 cit. By late 1996 the Ministry of Finance had lost the battle over regulation policy and had to concede full-blown deregulation of the financial sector, known as the Big Bang, which abolished the license system. ●●●

19 July 1996 Landmark EMEAP governors meeting in Tokyo ai_extracted 1 cit. On July 19, 1996, the Bank of Japan hosted a landmark meeting of all EMEAP governors in Tokyo, after which cooperation tightened to include annual governor-level meetings and working groups, with the Bank of Japan as temporary secretariat. ●●

1996 Greenspan's irrational exuberance speech ai_extracted 1 cit. In 1996 Fed chairman Alan Greenspan gave his famous speech on irrational exuberance, publicly suggesting he wanted to slow the economy even as the Fed kept increasing credit creation. ●●

31 May 1996 Tokyo High Court rules against bid-rigging ai_extracted 1 cit. On May 31, 1996 the Tokyo High Court issued a landmark decision against bid-rigging in electrical equipment installation work ordered by the Japan Sewage Works Agency. ●●

18 August 1996 Gary Webb publishes Dark Alliance 1 cit. no story Journalist Gary Webb's San Jose Mercury News series links the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras' fundraising to the crack cocaine trade in Los Angeles. Attacked by major papers and largely retracted by his editor, aspects were partly vindicated by a 1998 CIA Inspector General report acknowledging contra-drug connections. politics / society ●●●●

1996 Pastor's Panama ambassadorship blocked by Helms ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1996 Bill Clinton nominated Robert Pastor as Ambassador to Panama, but Senator Jesse Helms blocked the confirmation over Pastor's role in the 1976 Panama Canal giveaway. ●●

1996 AFT lawyer calls parents 'inconsequential conduits' ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto recounts that on June 24, 1996, in a Franklin County, Ohio court, an attorney for the American Federation of Teachers opposing a parent-choice initiative called parents 'inconsequential conduits.' He uses it to show school interests' contempt for parents. ●●

1996 NEA convention offers delegate bounty ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto reports that at the 1996 NEA convention the union offered members a $1000 bounty for getting elected as delegates to the Democratic National Convention. He uses it to show the NEA's political alignment. ●●

1996 Vermont Senate forces a loan on Benson ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto notes that in January 1996 the Vermont State Senate passed a bill forcing Benson to accept a 'loan' equal to its rejected school budget, plus interest. He uses it as an example of the state overriding local voters. ●●

1996 CIA creates the bin Laden station ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The CIA set up a dedicated counterterrorism unit of about a dozen people focused entirely on Osama bin Laden. There was a sense he might begin aiming at American targets abroad. ●●

1996 Saddam crushes CIA-backed coup plot ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Saddam's spies penetrated a CIA-supported coup plan and he arrested at least two hundred officers around Baghdad. He executed at least eighty of them, including a general's sons. ●●

1996 State Department cable documents Pakistani support for Taliban ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A December 1996 State Department cable documents Pakistani intelligence secretly supplying cash, equipment, and military advisers to the Taliban, with ISI officers fighting inside Afghanistan. ●●

1996 Taliban Captures Kabul and Takes Control of Afghanistan ai_extracted 2 cit. Taliban forces entered Kabul on September 27, 1996, establishing control over Afghanistan with support from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Osama bin Laden. ●●

1996 Then, Landis delivered his bombshell: a fine against rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Then, Landis delivered his bombshell: a fine against Standard Oil of Indiana that dwarfed any other in American corporate history up until that time: $29.24 million ($457 million in 1996 dollars). This was the maximum penalty: $20,000 for each of 1,462 carloads of oil cited in the indictment. ●●

1996 Barlow's Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 1996 manifesto, “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace”: “Governments of the Industrial World,…on behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone ●●

1996 American military presence in 1996 mirrors Roman imperial scale candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1996, the United States protected the outer reaches of its dominion by stationing 296,000 professional soldiers overseas, a figure strikingly similar to Roman imperial legions. ●●