Newark radio financier Blach to be released on bond
Irwin H. Sonny Blach, a former talk radio financial adviser, admitted defrauding listeners and is diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. He will be released from prison pending sentencing after prosecutors and defense lawyers requested the humanitarian measure. Judge Nicholas H. Politan ordered house arrest with electronic monitoring after a $500000 secured bond is posted, likely this week. Blach, 61, of Tampa, Fla., faces a grim prognosis with an estimated 3 to 12 months to live and only a 25 percent chance chemotherapy will improve those odds.
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Newark
N.J
Irwin H
Sonny” Blach
U.S
Nicholas H. Politan
Politan
Blach
Bloch
Tampa
Fla
Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Spreads to 42 States
Federal researchers report highly drug resistant tuberculosis. The strain, once in 13 states six years ago, now covers 42 states as US TB cases exceed 21,000 and deaths reach about 1,400 in 1994. Tuberculosis resurged after TB prevention efforts were relaxed a dozen years ago.
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Chicago
United States
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
Blues legend Junior Wells in coma after heart attack
Blues harmonica great Junior Wells, 62, fell into a coma after a Friday heart attack at Welss Memorial Hospital. Diagnosed with lymphoma, Wells had already battled weight loss and fatigue. Born in Tennessee and raised in Arkansas, he moved to Chicago in 1946 and joined Muddy Waters, shaping the Chicago blues scene.
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Chicago
Junior Wells
Wells
Welss Memorial Hospital
Marty Salzman
Tennessee
Arkansas
Muddy Waters
Group Sues San Jose Over Prop 209 Compliance
A Sacramento based conservative group filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court alleging San Jose violates Prop 209 by giving contract preferences to minority and women owned businesses. Michele Justi of the Pacific Legal Foundation said the program is a veiled effort to entrench preferences at taxpayer expense. This is the first California suit by a local government agency claiming noncompliance with Prop 209.
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San Jose
Michele Justi
Pacific Legal Foundation
Santa Clara County
Judge clears way for postal worker to testify
Debbie Nakanashi, a federal postal employee, testifies before the Oklahoma County grand jury probing the Oklahoma City bombing conspiracy theories after earlier being kept from speaking due to federal restrictions. She said district attorney Pat Morgan feared breaking restrictions could endanger the probe. Nakanashi and two others testified at the Oklahoma County jail.
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Oklahoma City
Debbie Nakanashi
Pat Morgan
Oklahoma
Nakanashi
Oklahoma County
Kaczynski defense opposes computer trial display
In Sacramento defense lawyers argue using computers and CD based case files would create a televised show and inflame the jury against Theodore Kaczynski the Unabomber. Prosecutors seek a digital display for judge jury and attorneys.
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Sacramento
Calif
Theodore Kaczynski
Quin Denvir
Judy Clarke
Kaczynski
Rembrandt, Duerer among $10M in looted art seized in NYC
Federal prosecutors say they recovered more than $10 million of valuable drawings including Rembrandt and Duerer works looted from Bremen and later linked to the National Museum of Baku. Masatsugu Koga, 60, faces charges after agents seized pieces in Manhattan. A Boston meeting over Gardner Museum art theft negotiations follows separate cases.
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New York
Rembrandt
Albrecht Duerer
Bremen
Germany
National Museum of Baku
Azerbaijan
U.S. Customs Service
Manhattan
U.S
Southern
Masatsugu Koga
Koga
Maxine Pfeffer
Duerer
National Museum of
Baku
Bonnie Goldblatt
Tokyo
Connor
Illinois
Springfield
Richard Mills
FBI
Clark
Mother Teresa Funeral Altar Under Construction in Calcutta
In Calcutta construction begins on an altar for Mother Teresa's funeral to be held Saturday. The city reflects the nun's reach from slum aid to boardroom influence as crowds file past her body at St. Thomas' Church. Hakshana, a beggar woman, recalls the overt contrast between Calcutta's poverty and its powerful districts.
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Mother Teresa
India
Calcutta
Hakshana
Airport Road
Abhijit Sen
Missionanes of Chariy Order
Rukshana
Raju
SpaceDev owner eyes asteroid mining profits
SpaceDev founder James W. Benson seeks private asteroid mining profits with a $50 million Near Earth Asteroid Prospector mission. The plan uses robotic craft to photograph, measure, and seek minerals like gold and platinum, selling data for profit without government funding. John Lewis notes asteroids may harbor purer ore than Earth deposits.
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Washington
James W. Benson
Benson
SpaceDev
Mars
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Jupiter
Iris Company
John Lewis
University of Arizona
Earth
Conservatives oppose Clinton civil rights nominee
Conservative groups that helped sink Lani Guinier oppose Bill Lan Lee for the civil rights post. Lee, head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund LA office, faces scrutiny for his civil rights record including desegregation, affirmative action and minority voting battles. Critics warn his views clash with current civil rights consensus and potential Supreme Court shifts. The nomination faces Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation under Orrin Hatch with a thorough hearing promised. no date set.
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Washington
Lani Guinier
Justice Department
Office of Civil Rights
Clinton
Bill Lan Lee
Los Angeles
Naacp Legal Defense Fund
Ing
Lee
Civil Rights Post
Clint Bolick
The
Institute For Justice
Supreme Court
Bolick
Linda Chavez
Center For Equal Opportunity
Ed Meese
Reagan
Ward Connerly
University of California
California
Legal Defense Fund
NAACP
U.S. Education and Justice Departments
Connerly
Ler
Senate
Jeanne Lopatto
Hatch
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Martin
Ine
Associated Press
Nyc
Boston
Benjamin Weiser
New York Times News Service
Judy Rakowsky
Stephen Kurkjian
Boston Globe
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Martin K. Seppo
Myles J. Connor Jr
William P. Youngworth III
Seppo
Bureau of Lhe Gardner
Youngworth
Edward Clark
Norfolk County
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