October 16, 1995

Bosnia Town Fears Slayings

For technology investors, the really big shoe falls tomorrow, when the Microsoft Corporation reports its first-quarter financial results. The key question is whether Windows 95, the operating system Microsoft introduced to much fanfare on Aug. 23, is selling as well as anticipated. And the answer, when it comes, will resound well beyond Microsoft.

Megan's Law" has a new problem: angry lawyers who do not want to defend sex offenders free. The New Jersey Bar Association is in an uproar over a proposal that lawyers provide free legal service for indigent sex offenders who wish to challenge the new law.

Curators at the Edison National Historic Site say they have found a wax cylinder bearing the first known recording of Thomas Alva Edison's voice, the A.P. reported.

In Washington, the Senate Republicans say their plan to curb a tax credit for the working poor will save $42 billion by the year 2002. Carolann Robbins, of Providence, R.I., says she cannot comprehend $42 billion. To Ms. Robbins, an administrative assistant who is raising two children alone, $1,800 is a lot of money. That is how much she got last year from the earned-income tax credit that the Republicans want to cut.