Negotiators agree on crime bill tentatively
Washington AP reports negotiators reached a $33.2 billion crime package adding 100,000 new police officers, an assault weapons ban, expanded death penalties, and life terms for third time felons. The measure funds law enforcement, prisons, drug courts, and prevention with a trust fund offset plan.
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Washington
Clinton
House
Senate
Charles Schumer
D-N.y
House Judiciary Committee
Orrin Hatch
Henry Hyde
R-Il
Emerald City of Oz
Police Corps
Border Patrol
Espy accuses meat safety chiefs of indifference to deaths
Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy says top Meat Safety and Inspection Service leaders showed little concern over four deaths from E coli 0157 linked to contaminated ground meat last year. He cited a January 1993 meeting and notes the outbreak killed three children and an adult, sickening nearly 500 across five states. An ongoing New Jersey outbreak followed.
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Washington
Mike Espy
Espy
Los Angeles Times
Food Safety and Inspection Service
FAA to strengthen wake turbulence warnings for 757s
The FAA will more aggressively warn pilots of dangers flying close behind Boeing 757s and other large planes after two fatal crashes where small planes entering the wake vortex behind 757s suddenly nosedived. Administrator David Hinson testified to the House committee that safety concerns will be shared more quickly with pilots and air traffic controllers. The crashes occurred when small aircraft landed within three miles of 757s, flipped into nose dives by wake turbulence.
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Washington
Federal Aviation Administration
FAA
David Hinson
House Science, Space and Technology Aviation Subcommittee
Hinson
Day care teacher shot to death in Ardmore center
A woman entered the Ardmore Child Care Center in Lower Merion Township and shot teacher Diane Morse, who had worked there over ten years. None of the children were harmed as police detained the suspect, described by a relative as a "crazy person."
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Ardmore
Diane Morse
Lesa Pierce
Ms. Morse
Ms. Pierce
Lower Merion Township
Refugees in Bukavu face looming risk as aid flows fight disease
In Bukavu Zaire more than 200000 Rwandan refugees struggle on limited rations amid suspected cholera cases and fears of a larger influx if French forces withdraw. UNHCR and aid groups rush supplies while trying to repatriate residents, but rumors and cold nights heighten danger as water and health services strain.
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Bukavu
Zaire
Rwanda
Goma
Peter Romanovsky
U.N
Rwandan Patriotic Front
Ruzizi
Equator
General Hospital
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Romanovsky
UNHCR
Beata Uabaligoro
Senate vote today on Breyer nomination to Supreme Court
Senate debate opened with praise from Sen. Orrin Hatch who called Stephen Breyer an honest man with immense qualifications and integrity. Majority Leader George Mitchell set a six hour debate followed by an immediate vote as Breyer faced opposition from Sen. Lugar over Lloyds of London investments and ethical scrutiny.
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Senate
Breyer
Washington
Stephen G. Breyer
Supreme Court
Orrin Hatch
Rutah
Mr. Hatch
Senate Judiciary Committee
Federal Appeals Court
Boston
Judiciary Committee
Hatch
Bob Smith
R-N.h. Lugar
Lloyd's of London Insurance
Butten
Edward Kennedy
D-Mass
Judge Breyer
Lloyd’s
Kennedy
Lloyd's of London
Mr. Lugar
Lugar
Cowlings Not Charged Yet In Simpson Flee Case
Prosecutors postponed a decision on charging Al Cowlings with aiding Simpson's escape. Defense scientists visited Cellmark Diagnostics in Germantown for potential independent DNA testing as the process begins. Henry Lee and colleagues will not participate in the observation while blood samples from Simpson related materials are tested.
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Los Angeles
al Cowlings
Dr. Simpson
Henry C. Lee
Edward T. Blake
Peter Neufeld
Germantown
Simpson
Cowlings
Marcia Skolnik
Maryland
Lee
Defense
Dr. Lee
Two killed at Pensacola abortion clinic shooting
In Pensacola Florida a man with a shotgun killed two clinic workers and wounded a woman at the Ladies Center for Abortion before being arrested. Paul Hill, an anti abortion activist and head of Defense America of Pensacola, was taken into custody near a barbecue restaurant. The wounded woman was treated at Baptist Hospital.
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Pensacola
Fla
Paul Hill
Ladies Center For Abortion
Tonya Humphries
Hill
Defense America of
Mark O’brien
O’brien
Baptist Hospital
Carol Trivett
Florida Panhandle
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World Food Program
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Mustapha Haragirimana
Kigali
O.J
Nicole Brown Simpson
Ronald Goldman
Mr. Cowlings
Mr. Simpson
Brentwood
Gil Garcetti
Nationwide Insurance
Bruce Finch
Vict Op. Oy
Roser
David Gunn
Eufaula
Ala
Pensacola Women’s Medical Services
Michael F. Griffin
Buick
Ars
Ideal Motors
Ideal
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