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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1998
Page
5
The Boston Globe reports that 56 percent of 13,656 medical school seniors offered residency placements on Wednesday will enter internal medicine, family practice, or pediatrics. Residency offers reached 93.5 percent, with international graduates also noted in the cohort.
Organized crime figure Turra was killed by gunfire on his front steps en route to a federal courthouse where jurors weighed racketeering charges in a plot to kill mob boss Merlino. Police call it an organized crime assassination as Turra and his son Louis faced mounting charges.
Douglas Buchanan, 29, was executed by injection in Jarratt Virginia after a decade old trial verdict found him enraged by a remark about his late mother. He told authorities he was ready to go and urged, get the ride started, as he died. The case traced his anger from his father’s remarriage six months after his mother’s death from cancer when he was 10.
Oakland County Circuit Judge David Breck ordered prosecutors by April 7 to charge Dr. Jack Kevorkian in the death of 21 year old Roosevelt Dawson or pursue a verdict of death by own action machine. The judge made the ruling during a hearing over Kevorkian's suit alleging Southfield police improperly seized his euthanasia device and related items from Dawson’s apartment after his death on February 26. Police say they kept the equipment to complete the investigation.
Three members of the North American Militia of Southwestern Michigan were arrested in Traverse City on firearms charges. The indictments detail a two year plan for attacks on federal targets and murders of agents. Remaining specifics include names Ken Carter Bradford Metcalf Randy Graham and the informant linked undercover agent. Brendon Blaiz of Kalamazoo earlier received a prison sentence for pipe bomb making.
Police say two $10 million oil paintings by Frederic Church and Edward Hopper were scratched at the Dallas Museum of Art in separate incidents. A prior $100,000 Walter McEwen piece had a 1 inch scratch. total damage estimated at $21,500. Museum staff expect full restoration and return to display, with police calling it criminal mischief.
In a 9th Circuit ruling the Phoenix department store may fire Mary Tiano for seeking unpaid leave to attend a Yugoslav pilgrimage in October 1988. The court said the pilgrimage was a personal preference not a calling and overturned a $16,445 award, noting the store bans leaves from October to December during the busy season.
Federal Judge Mariana Pfaelzer voided the remaining provisions of Proposition 187, the 1994 California ballot measure that denied education welfare and nonemergency health care to illegal immigrants. Gov. Pete Wilson pledged to appeal, as the initiative had not taken effect amid lawsuits.
Republicans on Capitol Hill circulated 1991 Clinton remarks about Anita Hill to attack the White House. They also cited Al Gore and Bill Clinton comments from the same period while defending Kathleen Willey letters and questioning the credibility of Hill and Thomas.
In Arkansas, trooper Danny Ferguson testified that Paula Jones set up a meeting with then Gov. Bill Clinton at the Excelsior Hotel in Little Rock on May 8 1991 and that Jones later met Clinton in his suite. Ferguson described the sequence and Jones bid for a casual relationship, while Clinton denied the encounter. The story also notes Willey and Steele allegations and ongoing political maneuvering in Congress as Kenneth Starr's probe continues.
Former Arkansas governor Jim Guy Tucker testified that state troopers told him they helped Bill Clinton arrange sexual liaisons. Tucker, who spent hours before the Whitewater grand jury, noted the allegations dated back years and tied to the Clinton era. He cooperates in the probe while facing prior convictions.
Lawmakers discuss letting a remote Minnesota enclave vote on secession to join Canada. Rep Collin Petergon urged an amendment enabling residents of Northweet Anolo to decide whether to leave the United States for Manitoba amid Ontario fishing-rights disputes.
President Clinton pushes Sinn Fein and Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble for a symbolic Ireland hand hug but Gerry Adams leaves Belfast without a handshake. Adams says he wants talks but will not meet Sinn Fein officials. Clinton cites Arafat Rabin gesture as a model amid two days of lobbying.
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