Babbitt urges monument status for five areas
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt urged President Clinton to protect five areas as national monuments. Pompeys Pillar near Billings, Montana, is one site, along with a Missouri River stretch in Montana, a central California grassland, and two coral reef areas in the U S Virgin Islands.
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William Clark
Interior
Bruce Babbitt
Billings
Mont
Babbitt
Clinton
Upper
Missouri River
Montana
California
U.S. Virgin Islands
Hawaii
Court overturns Rideau murder conviction freeing inmate journalist
A federal appeals court ruled Wilber Rideau must be released if not retried after finding the 1961 grand jury that indicted him violated the Constitution by excluding Black jurors. Rideau, editor of the Angolite prison magazine, has long fought for release after multiple parole denials and decades in Angola.
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Houston
5Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
New Orleans
Wilber Rideau
Rideau
Angola
Louisiana State Penitentiary
Angolite
Louisiana
Rideau Project
Loyola University
Twomey Center For Peace Through Justice
Appeals Court
U.S
Frank Polozola
Calcasieu Parish
Rick Bryant
U.S. Supreme Court
Iran 18 Intelligence Officials Go On Trial In Killings
Eighteen Tehran Intelligence Ministry officials face trial for the 1998 killings of five dissident writers. Claims of a broader state-sponsored killing machine surface as reformists and conservatives clash over Iran’s future.
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Washington Post
Istanbul
Turkey
Iran
Tran
Surgeons and U S reach AIDS discrimination accord
An Oklahoma group of neurosurgeons must stop denying HIV patients and pay $50,000 after a Justice Department lawsuit charging discriminatory treatment of John McCarthy. The 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act bans such refusals and ensures access to medical care for people with HIV.
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Oklahoma
Justice Department
Tulsa
Okla
Karl Detwiler
John McCarthy
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