Midwife a winner crowd cheers in court
Lucille Sykes, a 48 year old midwife, wins a preliminary Mercer County court ruling dropping all charges for practicing without a license after delivering a baby for an Amish family. The verdict sparked a celebratory scene as Amish and English supporters filled the courthouse vicinity.
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Mercer
Lucille Sykes
Joseph V. Gabany
Mrs. Sykes
James
Mercer County Children and Youth Services
Beijing standoff tests leaders as troops eyed withdrawal
In Beijing a power struggle raged among Deng Xiaoping Li Peng Zhao Ziyang and others over withdrawing troops to end a four day student protest siege. More than 300,000 demonstrated in Tiananmen Square while storms dispersed crowds and state media noted some troop pullbacks.
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Beijing
UPI
Communist Party
Deng Xiaoping
Li Peng
Zhao Ziyang
China
Zhao
U.S
Hong Kong
Voice of America
British Broadcasting Corp
Tiananmen Square
Casey and Senate GOP clash over drug fight spending
In Harrisburg Gov. Casey urged using $140 million freed by a failed tax revision to fund drug prevention, while Senate Republicans unveiled a rival plan increasing state shares for special education and mental health services. The dispute foreshadows a July 1 budget deadline as both sides push distinct spending paths.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Robert P. Casey
Casey
Senate
GOP
Robert Jubellier
Blair
Michael Hershock
Senate Appropriations Committee
House
Philadelphia
Ernie Preate Jr
Wright fights uphill battle in committee
House Speaker Jim Wright faces an ethics committee hearing on motions to dismiss key charges. A favorable ruling could drop the most serious allegations, leaving only minor claims about income and gifts. Wright and his lawyers contest how gift and outside income limits are interpreted as the panel weighs the motions.
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Washington
UPI
Jim Wright
Ethics Committee
Wright
Texas
House
Capitol
George Mallick
Fort Worth
Betty
Chicago
Richard Phelan
William Oldaker
Stephen Susman
Houston
Robert Torricelli
D-N.j
Clark Clifford
Couple seeks midwife birth after court drops charge
Salem Ohio couple Susann and Roger Thawley travelled to a western Pennsylvania town for a preliminary hearing in the Lucille Sykes case. Mercer County authorities dropped charges over acts as a midwife amid definitional ambiguity. Public support banners appeared as the Thawleys praised natural childbirth and their second child Regina.
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Mercer
Susann
Roger Thawley
Salem
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Lucille Sykes
New Wilmington
Mercer County Children and Youth Services Department
Joseph V. Gabany
Thawleys
Sykes
Regina
District Court
Economist explains gas price increase in wake of spill
A Chevron economist and Mobil Oil counsel said the spike in gasoline prices was a market correction not collusion. They cited OPEC production cuts, North Sea issues, a Colombian pipeline bombing, and Venezuelan disruption as factors. The remarks followed a closed-door session with state attorneys general probing possible price gouging after the Exxon Valdez spill.
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Portland, Ore
UPI
Alaska
Chevron
Tom Burns
Burns
Mobil Oil
Bill Dalgetty
OPEC
Dalgetty
North Sea
Columbia
Venezuela
Univer
Economist
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