Guatemalan army ousts President after coup bid
Guatemala's army ousted President Jorge Serrano a week after he dissolved parliament and seized power. Defense Minister Garcia Samayoa announced Serrano's resignation and transfer of power to Vice President Gustavo Espina Salguero, who later disappeared from confirmation but was said to stay on until Congress chooses a new leader this week.
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Guatemala City
Guatemala
Jorge Serrano
Gustavo Pina Salguero
Garciamayoa
Espina Salguero
Congress
Fer- Linares
Davis wins back job in federal reinstatement order
A federal judge ordered Jerry Davis, a former Ector County district attorney investigator, reinstated within 10 days after he won a $290,000 civil suit against Ector County. County officials say no funding will be provided to hire him, and the district attorney vows not to terminate current staff to accommodate his return.
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Midland
Ector County
Jerry Davis
Davis
U.S
Walter Smith
Waco
John Smith
Jim Jordan
Ex-DA Upchurch jailed for tax evasion sentence
Former 143rd District Attorney Hal Upchurch received 21 months total with six months in prison followed by 90 days in a halfway house and one year of supervised release for failing to file a 1987 federal income tax return. He must also pay 33,000 in restitution and back taxes.
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Pecos
143Rd
Hal Upchurch
U.S
Tom Beery
Upchurch
Lucius Bunton
Beery
Monahans
Widespread sexual harassment reported in U S schools
A national study of 1600 eighth through eleventh graders finds four of five teenagers harassed at school with influences from rumors to physical abuse. It shows early onset, low reporting rates, and severe emotional impact, especially on girls, with 13 percent of girls and 9 percent of boys forced into unwelcome sexual conduct beyond kissing.
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Washington
Anne Bryant
The
Educational Foundation
Clinton pushes deeper cuts and tax cuts to save plan
President Clinton campaigned in Milwaukee urging deeper budget reductions and lower taxes to secure passage of a $500 billion deficit reduction package. He warned against excess rhetoric and said compromise would come from Senate leadership, with the initiative needing to originate there.
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Clinton
Milwaukee
America
Vention Center
Senate
House
White House
Dee Dee Myers
Mortar attack hits Sarajevo soccer match killing civilians
In Sarajevo on a Muslim holy day, Serb mortar crews struck a Dobrinja suburb soccer game, killing at least 15 and wounding many as the crowd watched amid bloodstains near the parking lot by the airport. Bosnian radio warned of a potential heavy attack on Kurban Bagram. People gathered despite the war, with about 200 spectators, one man being treated with a bloody leg injury.
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Bosnia- Herzegovina
Resi
Kurban Bagram
Abraham
Dobrinja
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Rhodus
Sharon Schuster
American Association Ofversity Women
Schuster
Louis Harris and Associates
Foundation of the University Women’s Group
Earl
Kosovo
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