Multiple Disasters and Policy News Across Nation
A helicopter crash in New Mexico killed three firefighters and injured two as it ferried between blazes near Silver City. In Washington the deficit forecast improves but health care reform could drive deficits up again by 1999. In Connecticut a prison melee left two inmates dead and several injured. Los Angeles agreed to make 911 deaf accessible as part of a federal civil rights push.
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Chuck Tonn
Gila National Wilderness
Tonn
Washington
Clinton
White House
Enfield
Conn
Bill Flower
Carl Robinson Correctional Institution
Los Angeles
Justice Department
Sy DuBow
National Center For Law and Deafness
Breyer seeks to divest Lloyd's holdings amid hearings
Supreme Court nominee Stephen Breyer faced conflict of interest questions as hearings began. He said he did not view rulings involving Lloyd's of London as creating a conflict and announced plans to divest from all insurance holdings and exit a Lloyd's investor contract by 1995. Grassley praised his analytical approach while Thurmond pressed abortion and capital punishment issues.
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Associated Press and Gazette
Washington — Supreme Court
Stephen Breyer
Judiciary Committee
Breyer
Senate
Lloyd’s of London Insurance Company
Lloyd’s
Charles Grassley
Lown
Felix Frankfurter
Supreme Court
Grassley
Strom Thurmond
R-S.c
GOP Senators Block Action on Labor Bill
In Washington, GOP senators with some Democratic support blocked final action on the Workplace Fairness Act. The filibuster thwarted a 60 vote threshold, with 53 voting for and 47 against, leaving a second vote unlikely as talks continue. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, sponsor, criticized the blocking stance.
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Washington
Howard Metzenbaum
Ohio
Senate
Metzenbaum
GOP
Autopsy questions CIA worker's 1953 death in Olson case
James Starrs of George Washington University says preliminary autopsy findings from Olson's exhumed remains contradict government claims that he died by suicide after a 13 story fall. He notes multiple skull fractures and missing glass-cut evidence, fueling family suspicions of foul play in the LSD era CIA germ warfare research case.
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Washington Post
Washington
Frank Olson
Manhattan
Olson
James Starrs
George Washington University
Starrs
Frederick
Disney defends Lion King roots amid Kimba similarities
San Francisco AP report notes Disney calls Lion King original while critics cite parallels to 1960s Kimba the White Lion. Comparisons include orphaned lion princes, evil rivals, wise baboon ally, and a talking bird, with Scar versus Claw as rivals. Tezuka group says Disney’s work is distinct and original.
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Simba
America
Kimba
Claw
Scar
Disney
Associated Press
Osamu Tezuka
Takayuki Matsutani
Tezuka Productions
Tokyo
the Chronicle
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San Francisco Chronicle
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Bonanza
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