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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1997
Page
2
In a muted summation, Robert Baker argued OJ Simpson was harmed by police wrongdoing and vilified by rival lawyers, insisting Simpson killed neither Nicole Brown Simpson nor Ronald Goldman and had no motive or time to commit the alleged murders.
Sarah Ferguson begins her first assignment by interviewing top Paris fashion designers. She says journalists have a very big job as reporters chase her. Timothy Leary’s final wish to launch ashes into space is delayed with a new March date due to launch problems.
Jerusalem Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel has a contingency to halt any unilateral Palestinian state declaration. Reports indicate reoccupation of rural West Bank areas comprising about 27 percent, where Palestinians hold civil powers but share public order duties with Israeli forces. Arafat in Cairo says statehood will come at the right time after an interim period, and remains a Palestinian decision, not Israel’s. The 1993-1999 period slated self rule in the West Bank and Gaza with final status talks due.
Cape Canaveral Florida veteran astronaut John Blaha, after four months on the Mir station, was carried from the space shuttle Atlantis on a stretcher as doctors monitored weightlessness effects. Blaha, 54, reported weakness and difficulty walking while colleagues praised his courage and the move as a test of gravity’s impact on bones and muscles.
Former Senator William Cohen testified at a confirmation hearing that U S troops in Bosnia will be withdrawn by mid-1998. He argued the 18 month deployment is firm and that Europe will take over peacekeeping afterward. Cohen asserted the issue is primarily European in origin.
Loretta Thomas-Davis said Bill Cosby called her several times after Corie Williams, 17, was fatally shot on a Watts bus by a rival gang member. Police linked Cosby’s concern to his own son Ennis Cosby’s murder, while Williams’s mother described her daughter’s dreams of college and Army service.
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