19 Nov 1998
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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1998
Page
1
Witnesses scheduled to testify in the Gates case were shown hours of videotaped testimony in federal court. The government sought to portray Gates as evasive by having him dodge questions he could not recall and request restatement. Critics say the tape is more PR than substance.
National Book Award voters pass over Tom Wolfe to honor Alice McDermott for Charming Billy a story of an Irish family in New York. Edward Ball wins for Slaves in the Family in nonfiction and pledges partial income to restitution programs for descendants of former slaves. Population projections by 2050 show US growth to 394 million with aging and rising minority shares.
Washington Republicans purged much of their troubled leadership and elected Bob Livingston as Speaker designates while reelecting Dick Armey as majority leader after a bruising leadership race. Steve Largent challenged Armey. J C Watts upset Boehner for conference chair. Tom DeLay remained majority whip. Watts amplifies a broader public-face shift away from a white male image.
President Clinton shows no plan to send Congress a Social Security blueprint despite pressure from House Ways and Means chair Bill Archer who wants specifics. Archer warns a real proposal from Clinton could be the only path for reform next year while Rubin declines to testify and aides fear partisan backlash.
Geophysicist Frank Kyte of UCLA reports a tiny iridium rich fragment as the first unarguably meteoric object recovered from the K/T boundary. Published in Nature, the fleck from the Pacific Ocean supports the asteroid impact theory that ended the age of dinosaurs and reshaped life on Earth.
A French court ordered Voic magazine to pay 12500 dollars in damages to Trevor Rees-Jones for a disputed interview with Princess Diana's bodyguard. The ruling requires Voic to publish the decision in its next issue, with the magazine saying it may have been misled by the interview.
Linda McCartney left an estate valued at $200 million to her four children, per The New York Post. The late wife of Paul McCartney built wealth chiefly from cookbooks and a line of vegetarian products, and died in April from breast cancer at 56.
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