Bridges Show Bosnia Struggle and Hope After Peace Pact
Two bridges symbolize war torn Bosnia and the NATO peace mission. U S engineers fight floods to build a pontoon crossing the Sava River while a nearby bridge becomes passable for the first time in four years. Brig Gen Louis Zeller announces French troops seize ruined Miljacka banks as snow falls.
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Sarajevo
Bosnia- Herzegovina
Bosnia
U.S
U.S. Army
Sava River
Croatia
Paris
Vibanja
Hea
Louis Zeller
Miljacka
Judge rules charges reduced in Gammage death
In Pittsburgh, Judge James McGregor drops third degree murder charges against Officers John Vostas and J Milton Mulholland in the Oct 12 Gammage traffic stop death. They remain tied to involuntary manslaughter alongside Officer Michael Albert, with the family’s lawyer calling the move a meaningful accountability step.
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Pittsburgh
John Vostas
J. Milton Mulholland
Michael Albert
Allegheny County
James McGregor
Vostas
Mulholland
Jonny Gammage
Pittsburgh Steelers
Ray Seals
Gammage
Robert del Greco
Beacons boy driver kills two in tollbooth crash
A 13-year-old boy driving a car rammed a tollbooth on the Newburgh Beacon Bridge, killing himself and 14-year-old passenger Radu Paulin of Poughkeepsie. A 16-year-old passenger was hospitalized and a toll collector was treated and released. Police pursued after spotting the car with no headlights.
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Beacon
N.Y
Newburgh
Charles Kehoe
Newburgh-Beacon Bridge
New York City
Frank Davis Dy
Radu Paulin
Poughkeepsie
FBI Enlists Swiss Help to Track Oswald After 1959 Defection
Federal records show the FBI asked Switzerland’s federal police to investigate Lee Harvey Oswald after he left the United States in 1959. A July 27 1960 memorandum to J Edgar Hoover details the Swiss inquiry, delays locating the Albert Schweitzer College in Churwalden, and Oswald’s未 attended classes in fall 1959.
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FBI
Oswald
Washington
Lee Harvey Oswald
Switzerland
United States
Federal Police
Bureau
U.S
Paris
J. Edgar Hoover
Assassination Records Review Board
Kennedy
FBI Ini
Tially
Soviet Union
Marguerite C. Oswald
Fort Worth
Tex
Albert Schweitzer College
Hoover
Oklahoma City bomb links to Reno IRS attack
Two Nevada men Joseph Bailie and Ellis Hurst faced charges for planting a bomb outside an IRS building in Reno. Investigators said the device used 100 pounds of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, the same mix as the Oklahoma City blast. They were held without bail and could face up to 50 years.
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Reno, Nev
IRS
Oklahoma City
Joseph Martin Bailie
Ellis Edward Hurst
Reno
Internal Revenue Service
Bailie
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Nevada
Hurst
Baile
Gardnerville
Joseph Bailie
Front
Ellis Hurst
U.S
Nev
Witnesses accuse cops of execution in Atlanta shootout
Three witnesses say they watched from a fourth floor window as plainclothes officers fired at Jerry Jackson during a Dec 7 shootout at Moto Cycles. They claim Jackson was attempting to crawl away on the sidewalk when a second shooter opened fire, contradicting police accounts of the incident.
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Atlanta
Jerry Jackson
Moto Cycles
Jackson
Joanna Shiver
Bill Hallman
Serina Whitener
Shiver
LA treasurer, psychic advice and county bankruptcy
Los Angeles AP reports Orange County treasurer Robert L. Citron relied on a psychic and a mail order astrologer for financial guidance before a 1.64 billion dollar loss and bankruptcy on December 6 1994. Former finance director Eileen Walsh testified Citron’s mental state and alleged exploitation by officials and brokers.
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Los Angeles
Orange County
Robert L. Citron
Eileen Walsh
Los Angeles Times
Citron
New York Times Square Ball Gets New Year Makeover
A $75,000 facelift upgrades the Times Square New Year ball atop One Times Square. The six foot sphere now includes 12,000 rhinestones 10,000-watt lamp lasers and fog effects with 180 halogen lamps 144 strobes and search lights. It will descend via a 77 foot pole winch for 300 000 revelers.
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One Times Square
States execute 56 killers in 1995
Washington AP reports 56 convicted killers were executed in 1995, the highest national figure since 1957, as death rows hold more than 3,000 inmates. Texas led with 19 executions, Missouri followed with six, and 16 of 38 states with death penalty laws carried out at least one execution.
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Washington
United States
Richard Dieter
Death Penalty Information Center
Texas
Missouri
Supreme Court
U.S
Fitzgerald
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Ilinois
Louisiana
Montana
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Virginia
Marine rejects move to transport Okinawa rape trial
US Marine Pfc Rodrico Harp, 21, urged the case stay on Okinawa despite his mother and island anger. Co-defendant Pfc Kendrick Ledet did not object to a similar transfer motion, and the court accepted his mother’s appeal as residents push back on the presence of two thirds of Japan’s US troops.
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Naha
Japan
U.S
Okinawa
Pfc
Rodrico Harp
Griffin, Ga
Daisey
Kendrick Ledet
Waycross
Barbara Cannon
Cannon
Ledet
Yutaka Arakawa
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Matthew Raabe
New York
Times Square
Gretchen Dykstra
New York Times
Dykstra
Larry Fitzgerald
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Marine
Mitsunobu Matsunaga
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