FBI says homeless man chased officer before fatal White House shooting
The FBI states Marcelino Corniel aged 33 chased Park Police Officer Stephen ONeill with a knife on the White House sidewalk, ignored orders to stop, and was shot after refusing to drop the weapon. The incident near Lafayette Square prompted an assault on a federal officer charge and drew comment from White House officials and an attorney handling the family’s actions.
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FBI
White House
U.S. Park
Marcelino Corniel
Corniel
Lafayette Square
Pennsylvania Avenue
George Washington University Hospital
Dee Dee Myers
Myers
Park
Stephen J. O'Neill
O Neill
O’neill
Mr. Corniel
Police Communications Department
California
Newport Beach
Milton Grimes
Rodney King
Grimes
Barbara Corniel
Las Vegas
Alleged purse snatching linked to woman’s death charged as murder
In San Jose, Jaye Ramon Scott, 30, is charged with murder after a purse-snatching allegedly triggered acute emotional stress causing the fatal heart attack of 48 year old Sharon Llewellyn during the chase. He also faces theft and robbery counts. In Washington, the federal deficit for the first two months of the new fiscal year fell 16.6 percent from the same period a year earlier, with November deficits at 37.46 billion dollars. The two-month shortfall totals 69.92 billion, as Clinton aides project a 167 billion dollar full-year deficit, down from 203.4 and 255 billion in prior years.
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San Jose
Calif
Sharon Llewellyn
Jaye Ramon Scott
Llewellyn
Washington
Treasury Department
Clinton
Logging plan upheld for Northwest forests by court
U.S. District Judge William Dwyer ruled the Clinton administration logging plan for Northwest national forests is not illegal. He found environmentalists and the timber industry failed to prove invalidation. The 1991 injunction over the northern spotted owl had been lifted earlier this year after new plan, Option 9, was proposed and challenged.
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Seattle
Clinton
Northwest
U.S
William Dwyer
Dwyer
Bush
Man jumps into tiger cage at Queen's Park Zoo
In East London, South Africa, 27 year old Fumanekile Ngqase climbed into a tiger cage at Queen's Park Zoo on Tuesday morning and stabbed at the tigers with a knife. He received minor scratches, was subdued by police and zookeepers, and later treated at a hospital after threatening self harm.
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East London
South Africa
Fumanekile Ngqase
Queen’s Park Zoo
Indian Ocean
Mr. Nggase
Prosecution fund grows for Susan Smith case
Donations from across the country pour in to help prosecute Susan Smith. Bosworth Missouri residents sent 270 dollars, a Columbus Georgia woman 20 dollars, bringing total gifts to 495 dollars as officials seek legal guidance on using the money. Union County leaders note Christmas timing and cross county support for the case.
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Columbia
D.C
Bosworth
Columbus
Susan Smith
June Miller
Union
Dale Robinson
Perry 1995 base closures to be significant but painful
Defense Secretary William Perry says the 1995 base closure round will be sizable but not as large as feared. He notes previous rounds closed many easy targets and expects a result similar in magnitude to 1993, with 30 major bases affected.
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Washington
Defense
William Perry
Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission
Perry
Reagan reveals Alzheimer's message during luncheon
Maureen Reagan said former President Reagan disclosed his Alzheimer's diagnosis to raise awareness. She praised his public impact, calling him everyone’s president yet her daddy, and declined to discuss his condition, noting it is a personal matter.
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Reagan
Maureen
Maureen Reagan
Camarillo
Pleasant Valley Republican Federated Women
Grozny Bombings Deepens Chechnya Assault
Russian jets bomb Grozny in the heaviest bombardment yet with at least 24 killed. A later attack in the city center killed 20 more, including an American photographer. Moscow reshuffles top generals as Chechnya operations continue amid civilian chaos and evacuations.
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Grozny
Russia
Chechnya
Moscow
Defense
Pavel Grachev
Defense Ministry
Grachev
Georgy Kondratyev
Eduard Vorobyov
Itar-Tass
Vorobyov
Sergei Yushenkov
Defense Committee
Associated Press
Afghanistan
Temur Albakov
Red Front Street
Boris Yeltsin
Caucasus Mountains
Yeltsin
Taman
Hunger debate tests federal food aid as elderly malnutrition rises
Congress heard that thousands of elderly Americans lack adequate nutrition even as food pantries struggle. Advocates cited a 1 in 5 reach by federal nutrition programs and urged return of cheese giveaways, while donations lag and agencies ration supplies amid shrinking commodities funding. Experts noted hundreds of thousands of vulnerable seniors, like Mary Marshall in Washington, struggle daily to obtain meals.
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Washington
Congress
Ron Wyden
Dore
Wyden
House
Eleanor M. Josaitis
Focus: Hope
Detroit
Christine Vladimiroff
Second Harvest
Chicago
Fernando Torres-Gil
Department of Health and Human Services
Mary Marshall
Washington, DC
Marshall
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