White House meets on release of Cold War radiation tests
A White House summit with staff from Energy, Defense, VA and NASA will discuss releasing data on Cold War era radiation experiments. Secretary Hazel O Leary disclosed up to 800 tests including 125 mentally retarded children in Massachusetts and 23 pregnant women in Boston. The administration weighs victim aid and possible compensation while VA and Defense review hospital and Pentagon records for further evidence.
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Energy
Hazel O’leary
Massachusetts
Boston
Energy, Defense and Veterans Affairs Departments
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jeff Eller
Clinton
George Stephanopoulos
Defense
Les Aspin
Pentagon
Edward Kennedy
Ed Markey
Mitchell high School turns boarders save town from declining enrollment
In Mitchell Oregon the public high school operates a boarding program to steady enrollment and fund four teachers. Dorm students pay 75 dollars monthly. 14 beds filled since February with a 25 person waiting list. Principal Carroll, also a one man district staff, oversees strict homework rules and discipline.
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Mitchell
Ore
Jaime McLawhorn
Oregon
Portland
High Desert
Jaime
Michael Carroll
Carroll
Jo Ann Reynolds
Astoria
Oregon Coast
Heather Sullivan
Montezuma
Crane Union High
Harney County
Nation in brief Most police deaths by gunfire in 1993
Nationwide, at least 139 officers were killed in the line of duty in 1993, with 72 from gunfire, per the National Association of Chiefs of Police. Final tallies likely rise as reports come in. 1992 had 160 line-of-duty deaths, 70 by gunshot, while 1991 saw 143 gunfire deaths.
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Washington
National Association of Chiefs of Police
Dennis Martin
The
Police Association
Record numbers leave Cuba for U S in 1993 exodus
Miami report shows a 1993 surge of Cuban refugees reaching Florida by boat. Coast Guard officials note 3,656 arrivals, a 43 percent rise from 1992’s 2,557, marking the largest flow since the 1980 Mariel boatlift of 125,000. Under a 1966 act, nearly all Cubans reaching U S shores can receive residency.
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Miami
Florida
Coast Guard
Chris Whitlock
Mariel
U.S. Shores
Passing motorist shoots teen in car in Norco
In Norco California a speeding driver passing on the right fired a gun at a slower car on Interstate 15 killing 19 year old Emmett Royston as his brother Ian Royston 22 drove. Deputy Mark Lohman of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department described the incident on Sunday.
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NORCO
Calif
Ian Royston
Mark Lohman
Riverside County Sheriff's Department
Royston
Emmett
Lohman
Dole Tops GOP Poll for 1996 Nomination
Kansas Senator Bob Dole leads a Republican field in a Gannett News Service poll with 26 percent of respondents naming him as their preferred presidential candidate for 1996. Colin Powell follows with 16 percent, while awareness and familiarity of Powell outstrip other contenders.
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Clinton
Congress
Kansas
Bob Dole
Gannett News Service
Louis Harris and Associates
Senate
Colin Powell
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Powell
Dole
Dan Quayle
Iraq
Joint Chiefs
Quayle
Emory University
Merle Black
Black
Republican National Committee
Haley Barbour
Barbour
Rush Limbaugh
Limbaugh
Dick Cheney
Pete Wilson
California
William Weld
Massachusetts
Carroll Campbell
South Carolina
Bob Dole Ee Ae
Tianaes
GOP seeks independent probe of Whitewater affair
Senate Republicans demand an independent counsel to probe President Clinton and the Whitewater deal and Madison Savings and Loan affair. Dole urges Reno to appoint a counsel, Gingrich backs probe, while Stephanopoulos calls it political opportunism. Clinton aides deny crimes and note prior reviews.
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Whitewater
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Congressional
Clinton
Arkansas
Savings and Loan
Senate
Robert Dole
Janet Reno
ABC
David Brinkley
House
Newt Gingrich
Georgia
George Stephanopoulos
Dole
Kansas
NBC
the Clintons
Sig
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Gingrich
Reno
Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan Association
James McDougal
Madison
Whitewater Development Corp
Clintons
McDougal
Waites
Stephanopoulos
Justice Department
Rep
Jim Leach
Iowa
House Banking Committee
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