Miami judge orders two safe zones for homeless
U S District Judge C Clyde Atkins ordered Miami to establish two safe zones where homeless people without shelter can eat and sleep without arrest. The move stems from a 1988 ACLU lawsuit alleging police cleared homeless from public view during events like the Orange Bowl and Super Bowl. The suit represented about 6000 homeless residents.
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Four Detroit Cops Charged in Malice Green Death Case
Detroit police officers facing murder and manslaughter charges in the beating death of Malice Green, a 35 year old motorist, after a Nov 5 incident near a suspected drug house. Nevers and Budzyn could face life. Douglas involuntary manslaughter and neglect of duty. Lessnau assault with intent to do great bodily harm. Hearing set for Dec 14 amid protests at the beating site.
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Robert Lessnau
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Edward Collins
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Wayne Green
Armand Bove
Water gun tops dangerous toys list in annual ranking
AP reports that the Super Soaker 100 by Larami Corp leads a list of ten dangerous toys named by a product-liability lawyer. The list also includes Fisher Price Creative Blocks and Puffalump Snuggle Light, Moon Shoes marketed by Nickelodeon, and items from Kenner Mattel Applause Inc DreamWorks Ohio Art among others.
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Larami Corp
Edward Swartz
Fisher Price Inc
Swartz
Fisher Price
Jack Martin
Nickelodeon
Ken
Ex Communist Leader Dominates Lithuanian Election Victory
Former Communists renamed the Democratic Labor Party won 79 of 141 seats in Lithuania's parliament. Algirdas Brazauskas, 60, a long-time party figure and future chairman, is seen as leading the shift away from Communist rule toward independence and free enterprise. Brazauskas, trained as an engineer, rose from state planner to party secretary to Lithuania's top leadership, asserting he was never a Communist by conviction.
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Democratic Labor Party
Brazauskas
Vytautas Landsbergis
Communist Party
Lithuania
Yemen bars Somalis from going ashore
A 2,500 refugee Somali ship limped into a Yemen port and was denied ashore while UN aid planned. Reports said up to 100 may have died on the six day voyage. The Samaa-1 was to move passengers to Aden, where UN workers prepared tents and latrines.
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Yemen
Samaa-1
Mukalla
Aden
U.N
United Nations
Teen pregnancy rate steady in 1980s report
The Public Health Service says the teen pregnancy rate stayed level during the 1980s while condom use by adolescents rose. The study notes white girls aged 15 to 19 saw increased premarital sex from 41 to 51 percent, a stable white pregnancy rate near 93 per 1000, and a peak of 6.3 million teen pregnancies in 1988 with condom use at first intercourse rising from 28 percent in 1980 to 45 percent in 1988.
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Public Health Service
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