North seeks Reagan testimony at Iran Contra trial
Lawyers for Oliver North ask federal judge to order former President Reagan to testify March 31 as North opens his defense in the Iran Contra trial. The request argues Reagan's diary and actions may show awareness or approval of North's alleged efforts to aid the Contras amid the 1984 1986 ban, while administration lawyers oppose subpoena on executive privilege grounds.
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Sauk may drop soccer at Sauk Valley College
Sauk Valley Community College president Dr. Richard Behrendt is to urge elimination of soccer from the college's sports, citing recruitment difficulties and one nearby rival with the sport. He will also present men and women's basketball coaches and their conference championship trophies at Monday’s board meeting. The board is not expected to act on Dr. David Peterson's easement proposal for an ambulatory surgery center. Board member Edie Peterson plans to resign to avoid potential conflict of interest with her husband's easement bid.
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Spring Warmth Bids Residents Outdoors In Sauk Valley
Warm springlike temperatures in the Sauk Valley area push residents outside. National Weather Service forecasts mild conditions through Wednesday with Easter Sunday highs around 65 degrees. Three year old Kelly Cooper assists Steve Cooper clearing winter debris from the lawn.
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First Space Chicks Hatch After Space Shuttle Launch
In Louisville Kentucky the world's first space chicks hatched from shells at 8 29 p m Friday twelve days after Space Shuttle Discovery launched carrying 32 embryos for a space development experiment named Chix in Space funded by Kentucky Fried Chicken. The incubator chicks were devised by John Dellinger a Purdue senior engineer and the chick named Kentucky would stay in its incubator for six to eight hours before relocation to a Colonel Sanders Technical Center coop.
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Steinberg Sentenced to Maximum 25 Years in Child-Killing Case
In Manhattan a disbarred lawyer Joel Steinberg received the maximum 25 year term for the death of 6 year old Lisa, with no parole. Judge Harold Rothwax rejected mercy pleas noting Steinberg showed no remorse and recommended against parole. Lisa’s natural mother Michele Launders and other relatives expressed fury and heartbreak outside the Greenwich Village courtroom.
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Judge to be asked to put Bennett away
An Earlville woman, Kathy Joanne Bennett, 25, faces sentencing Monday in Lee County Circuit Court for first degree murder in the Nov. 2 death of Carrie Duncan, 80, of Paw Paw. Bennett pled guilty Feb. 15 and could receive 20 to 60 years, 60 to 100 years for brutality, or natural life. Co defendant Calvin Pierce, 30, goes to trial April 18 on seven murder counts.
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Lebanon battles renew as artillery blasts shake Beirut area
Three people were killed and 40 wounded in renewed Lebanon fighting. Christian army units clashed with Syrian forces and allied Moslems as over 25 towns near Beirut and in eastern Lebanon faced shelling. Gen Michel Aoun vowed to press on against Syria’s presence, saying Syria is not a stabilizing factor.
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Pope conducts Good Friday Way of the Cross in Rome
Pope John Paul II carried a six foot wooden cross through the Colosseum during a candle lit Way of the Cross ceremony drawing about 10 000 pilgrims. He led passages of the fourteen stations reflecting Christ's suffering and death and later heard confessions in St Peter's Basilica as Holy Week deepened toward Easter.
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