Newsmaker Harrelson Takes Steps to Be Marijuana Activist
SEATTYVILLE Ky AP Woody Harrelson aims to be convicted on a marijuana charge to challenge a state law. A district judge amended his earlier cultivation charge to possession, making a conviction easier, as Harrelson seeks to contest the legal distinction between industrial hemp and the illegal drug.
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Seattyville, Ky
Woody Harrelson
Ralph McClanahan II
Tom Jones
Ex-Girlfriend Sues Grammer Over Disparaging Remarks
Corlette Lamme claims Kersey Grammer disparaged her in his book So Far and on Oprah. She alleges he said she lost his dog Goose and badgered him into driving while drunk, and that she quit working and did drugs at his house.
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Oprah Winfrey
Lovett To Perform For ValuJet Victim's Family
Nashville singer songwriter Walter Hyatt 46 died May 11 in the ValuJet crash leaving a wife and two children. Lyle Lovett will join other entertainers for a memorial concert set for June 23 at the Ryman Auditorium, where Hyatt was a respected Nashville musician and Lovett produced one of his albums.
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Lyle Lovett
Florida
Walter Hyatt
Ryman
Grand Ole Opry
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Aiken Standard Subscription Rates and Contact Details
Rates for home delivery and mail options are listed for Aiken Standard subscribers. Advance payments can be made to Aiken Standard PEM Subscription. The paper, established in 1867, is published by Aiken Communications Inc. in Aiken South Carolina with address and postmaster details included.
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Moderates Fill Netanyahu Cabinet Amid Right Wing Coalition
Prime Minister elect Benjamin Netanyahu, backed by a coalition of right wing and religious lawmakers, signals a cautious peace approach while ruling out a Palestinian state. He pledges secular burial rights and non Orthodox marriage arrangements, with peers aiming to retain control over the West Bank and Gaza. Peres, aging elder statesman, urges завершение of the peace process begun with Rabin in 1992.
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Mideast
Libya
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Golan Heights
Likud
West Bank
Gaza
Shimon Peres
Peres
Yitzhak Rabin
Last ValuJet flight before grounding draws wary travelers
Passengers aboard the Atlanta bound ValuJet flight drank beer as the carrier ceased operations after a federal inspection found serious deficiencies. The delayed Detroit landing marked one of the airline's final flights before a grounding, with vouchers offered for future travel and customer frustration mounting over cancellations and delays following the May crash.
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Kim Broeckling
Ms. Broeckling
Fort Walton Beach
Fla
Detroit
Florida Everglades
Paula Castellon
Vancouver
Canada
Whitewater Reports Split Along Party Lines
Washington Senate Whitewater Committee releases divergent final reports. Democrats back Hillary Rodham Clinton citing cooperation and limited involvement. Republicans accuse her of guiding access to Foster files and reappearance of billing records tied to Castle Grande.
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Washington
Senate Whitewater Committee
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Senate
GOP
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Vincent Foster
Mike McCurry
Clinton
FBI
Arkansas Savings and Loan
Castle Grande
Arkansas
David Kendall
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Don Denton
Kendall
Denton
Clinton defends China trade deal as constructive engage ment
President Clinton defends an 11th hour bargain with China arguing the agreement shows constructive engagement working to avert a trade war. Critics call the deal a sham while administration officials say it clarifies U.S. resolve on intellectual property theft and may sway Congress on China MFN renewal.
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China
United States
Beijing
U.S
Congress
Kevin L. Kearns
Iton
Commerce
Mickey Kantor
California
Yeltsin Gains Endorsement From General Lebed in Runoff
President Boris Yeltsin strengthens his bid for a runoff by securing a key endorsement from General Alexander Lebed, a former third-place candidate and war hero. Lebed, named head of the Security Council, said the deal unites politicians and the forces serving them as Yeltsin courts support from Grachev and top military leadership amid the Chechnya war fallout.
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Boris Jensin
Russia
Alexander Lebed
Yeltsin
Security Council
Remlin
Lebed
Pavel Grachev
S. Grachev
Chechnya
Mikhail Kolesniev
Boris Yeltsin
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