Inmate Pleads Innocent in May 1990 Store Owner Slaying
Gastonia jail inmate Clemmer, 19, insists he did not kill Sandra Phillips at C&S Grocery on May 8, 1990, claiming he was with his grandmother and at Food Lion the night of the robbery. He says he loved Phillips and once played drums with her in the gospel group Christian Voices, but prosecutors say he is guilty.
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Avid Clemmer
Clemmer
Gaston County
Gastonia
Stanley
C&s
Sandra Phillips
Firestone Street
Food Lion
Christian Voices
Sandra
Blondie to Enter the Workaday World in New Cartoon Plot
New York AP reports Blondie will leave homemaking and bridge games for a job starting Labor Day as the comic strip marks its 61st year. Creator Dean Young says the change provides fresh material and no sociological statement, just humor. Dagwood reacts with tentative tone.
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New York
Blondie
Cookie Bumstead
Dean Young
Young
The
Times
Cancer fighter tested shows promise in early human trials
Ronald Breslow of Columbia University reported at the American Chemical Society meeting that a new drug HMBA, which nudges cancer cells toward maturation, produced positive responses in lung cancer and leukemia patients and may affect ovarian, breast, and colon cancers. Researchers caution it is not yet available to the public and success in a few cases does not guarantee broad effectiveness.
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New York
John Laszlo
American Cancer Society
Ronald Breslow
Columbia University
American Chemical Society
Breslow
Laszlo
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston
Thirteen charged with treason in Soviet coup probe
Thirteen people linked to the failed Soviet coup were charged with high treason, including survivors of the self proclaimed State Committee for the State of Emergency. Prosecutors said the defendants faced possible death by firing squad and that several high ranking officials would be questioned as part of ongoing investigations.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Valentin Stepankov
State Committee
Anatoly Lukyanov
Communist Party Central Committee
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Jennifer Cetta
Gazette
Ermit Auie Ette
David Clemmer
Abby
Callas Gastonia
Lincolnton
Charlotte
Fox
Blondie Boopadoop
Dagwood Bumstead
Bumsteads
Dagwood
Associated Press
Bumstead
Stepankov
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Russia
Ye. Lisov
Yuri Prokofiev
Communist Party
Boris N. Yeltsin
Lukyanov
Sup
U.S
Britain
KGB
Mikhail Gorbachev
Boris Yeltsin
Gorbachev
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