Doomsday clock adds environmental focus nation wide
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists revises its Doomsday Clock to include environmental, economic and cultural factors alongside the arms race. Doomsday clock hands stay at six minutes to midnight as editors say security now means more than nuclear risk. The group, founded in 1945, notes a new era of threats from pollution and poverty, with a shift in defining international security.
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Chicago
UPS
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Len Ackland
United States
Soviet Union
Bulletin
The
Albert Einstein
University of Chicago
Fourth teen indicted in Bensonhurst racial killing case
New York United Press International reports a grand jury indicted fourth youth Joseph Serrano on second degree murder and manslaughter charges in the Aug 23 slaying of 16 year old Yusuf Hawkins in Brooklyn. Fama Mondello Rauc ci Curreri Stressler Patino charged in related counts. other three suspects face assault charges.
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New York
UPI
Brooklyn
Joseph Serrano
Yusuf Hawkins
Hawkins
Bensonhurst
New York City
Howard Beach
Ave Andrade
Serrano
Joseph Fama
Fama
Keith Mondello
Pasquale Raucci
Steven Curreri
Charles Stressler
James Patino
Board grants battered woman clemency in murder case
The Washington Clemency and Pardons Board recommended clemency for Delia Alaniz, 36, who pleaded guilty to a reduced second degree murder charge for hiring a man to kill her husband in 1987 after 15 years of abuse. Judge McLean opposed, while chairwoman Sutherland argued clemency serves state interests and protects Alaniz and her children.
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Olympia, Wash
UPI
State
Delia Alaniz
Grant County Superior Court
B.J. McLean
McLean
Trudy Sutherland
Tacoma
Alaniz
Roy
Neb. couple finds 4-foot wasp nest in attic fright
Harriet and Bud Morrissey discovered a four foot wasp nest with up to 5000 yellow jackets in their Lincoln attic. Pest control owner Ron Stetson used wasp freeze to stun the hive and poison to kill the colony, then workers moved the nest out. Larvae remained and were treated with powder for six months.
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Neb
UPI
Harriet
Bud Morrissey
Morrisseys
Ron Stetson
Kill-Rite Quality Pest Control
Stetson
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