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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1996
Page
3
President Clinton called for harsher sentences for juvenile drug conspiracy and gun crimes and urged prosecuting youths as adults with longer detention and broader use of juvenile records. He declared a firm aim to dismantle gangs like the Bloods and Crips and warned criminals to abandon neighborhoods.
The Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 that defendants must show a pattern of the government declining to prosecute whites for the same crimes before probing race as a factor in prosecutions. The decision reversed a Ninth Circuit ruling in a Los Angeles crack cocaine case and stressed that statistics alone must point to individual nonblack defendants who could have been charged.
Roger Kubeck, husband of ValuJet pilot Candi Kubeck, describes her as meticulous about safety and preparation. He notes she would have checked everything and never wanted to become a statistic after her jetliner crash killed 109 people in Florida. The couple, married eight years with no children, had discussed dying in a crash after a prior aviation tragedy.
Gazette reports Sue Carpenter age 40 and her husband Ron Carpenter were killed in a plane crash over the Florida Everglades while returning from a honeymoon cruise. Sue, daughter of Ann and Richard Westhoff of Dubuque, had a son Chris and two brothers, and worked as a secretary at the Murfreesboro VA Hospital. her husband led the hospital dental clinic. The Westhoffs had traveled from Tennessee to visit their daughter two weeks earlier.
In a pilot across New York, Florida, Illinois, Texas and California, the crackdown on fraud yielded 42.3 million in recovered funds. Officials say it returned 10 dollars for every one spent and seek nationwide expansion under President Clinton’s 1997 budget proposal.
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