AFL-CIO Leader Detained Amid University Contract Protest
John Sweeney was placed in a police cruiser Tuesday night as protesters were loaded into city police buses. They faced charges of public disturbance amid a labor dispute with the university over subcontracting. CAPE CANAVERAL NASA said a loose screw likely jammed a shuttle Columbia hatch, cancelling two spacewalks last month.
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New Haven, Conn
Afl-Cio
Yale University
John Sweeney
Cape Canaveral
Fla
NASA
Tuester Kennedy Space Center
Woman dives to save son from sinking car in pond
In Richmond Virginia a woman leaped into a pond to rescue her 3-year-old son Hunter after his station wagon rolled from a parking lot into a pond while she paid for dishes. Police said the transmission may have shifted to neutral. The mother reports a Christmas miracle as she swam with her son to shore despite a damaged windpipe and breathing limits.
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Richmond
Kathy Crockett
Hunter
Crockett
Family surrenders in shoplifting-for-hire case
In St Paul Minnesota a rich family surrendered after being accused of giving a shop lifter lists of items to steal and paying him cut rates for goods. Gerald Dick and his wife Judy along with two children James Dick and Stacy Zehren face two counts each of attempting and conspiring to receive stolen property. Police linked the scheme to Gregory E Thomas who sold about 250000 dollars worth of goods to the family over years. Zehren, 81 months pregnant, will not surrender until after childbirth.
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ST. Paul
Minn
Gerald Dick
Judy
James Dick
Minnesota Vikings
Stacy Zehren
Chicago
Gregory E. Thomas
Zehren
Ritalin Use Not Overprescribed Study Finds
Chicago doctors report Ritalin use for hyperactivity in children is about 214 times higher now than in 1990 but far less than a sixfold rise claimed by some. About 1.5 million youths ages 5 to 18, or 2.8 percent, take the drug for ADHD. study led by Dr. Daniel J. Safer of Johns Hopkins notes it does not judge proper use.
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Chicago
U.S
Pediatrics
Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics
Daniel J. Safer
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore
Democrats win two of three Texas runoff elections
In Texas runoffs on Tuesday Democrat Nick Lampson defeated Rep. Steve Stockman 53 to 47 as Ken Bentsen easily won in the 25th District. Republican Kevin Brady beat Gene Fontenot in the 8th District while Albert Dencan won the Texas Senate seat, giving Republicans control of the chamber.
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Houston
Steve Stockman
Stockman
Nick Lampson
Texas
Ken Bentsen
Lloyd Bentsen
Dolly Madison McKenna
Kevin Brady
Gene Fontenot
Pat Robertson
House
Senate
West Texas
Albert Dencan
David Langston
Plano mother placed on probation for chronic kindergarten tardiness
In Plano Texas Caroline Edens was placed on 90 days probation after her five year old son Sam Bundy repeatedly arrived late to kindergarten. A judge ordered Sam to bed at a proper time wake him and escort him to class plus mandatory parenting classes in a last ditch effort to curb the truancy.
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Plano
Texas
Caroline Edens
Sam Bundy
Networks adopt E/I symbol for children's programs
Major networks will label shows with an E/I symbol starting January 2 to support FCC rules mandating three hours of children’s educational programming weekly. NBC CBS Fox and UPN plan distinct labeling approaches. ABC and WB say they will also use the symbol.
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FCC
NBC
CBS
Fox
UPN
ABC
National Association of Broadcasters
The
Association of Local Television Stations
Soldiers Testify that Kuwait War Detected Chemicals Were Discounted
Two US soldiers operating Fox mobile chemical detectors testified before Congress that detections of chemical agents in Kuwait during and after the 1991 Gulf War were ignored or dismissed by superiors. Maj. Michael Johnson and George Grass described alarms for mustard agent and nerve agent, with readings reportedly discounted as oil-fire vapors or false alarms.
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Washington
Congress
Kuwait
Defense Department
Fox
House
Maj
Michael Johnson
Army
Pentagon
Johnson
George Grass
Marine Corps
Grass
Marine
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait City
Woman says Kennedy fathered child abortion claim surfaces
Judith Campbell Exner, once linked to John F Kennedy, tells Vanity Fair in January issue she aborted his child ten months before his assassination. She says Kennedy urged an illegal abortion with help from Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana and provides receipts for a January 1963 procedure at Grand Hospital. Exner, 62, living in California with cancer, says she kept quiet in 1977 to avoid danger.
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New York
Judith Campbell Emer
John F. Kennedy
Vanity Fair
Exner
Chicago
Kennedy
Sam Giancana
Grand Hospital
United States
Dallaser
Orange County
Calif
Major networks announce educational shows for January
ABC plans Brand Spanking New Doug The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and The ABC Weekend Special. CBS lists Bailey Kipper’s PLON Secrets of the Cryptkeeper’s Haunted House Beakman’s World and GBS Storybreak. NBC adds Saved by the Bell The New Class Hang Time California Dreams and NBA Inside Stuff. Fox airs C Bear and Jamal Bobby’s World and Lila with Louie.
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ABC
Doug
CBS
Bailey Kipper
California Dreams
NBA
Fox
C-Bear
Jamal
Bobby
Lila
Louie
Federal TV ratings system to launch for all programs
News reports say a new federal law requires a TV ratings system for all entertainment programs. The system will resemble the symbols used for movies and be announced on December 19.
Two assailants theory in Simpson trial argued
The defense attorney proposed a two assailant scenario with one man in a cage area near Nicole Brown Simpson as another killed her friend Ronald Goldman. He cited a four foot distant shoe print as evidence while detective Lange resisted confirming a second attacker.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Simpson
Ronald Goldman
Nicole Brown Simpson
Nicole Simpson
Robert Baker
Herody
Goldman
Baker
Tom Lange
Lange
FBI
Philip Vannatter
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