Mr Clinton said he had asked the Attorney General, Janet Reno, to try to determine whether there are common threads between the Jonesboro tragedy and similar shootings in Kentucky and Mississippi in the past five months.

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Tata was hopeful that the attacks would unite Indians behind a common goal of preventing a similar tragedy.

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In different ways, the tragedy in Kosovo has also been a challenge to the allies' declared common values, which have always been viewed with a certain scepticism in places beyond Europe and North America.

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