Victim barred from watching killer's execution in Georgia
The lone triple murder survivor Rick Smith was denied the right to witness Larry Grant Lonchar's execution. Georgia corrections chief Allen Ault ruled witnesses must be kept away from the electric chair and informed while relatives may wait at the prison for the outcome.
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Larry Grant Lonchar
Ineorgia
Rick Smith
Smith
Allen Ault
State Department of Corrections
Ault
GOP bill targets late term abortion in House panel
Washington Republicans pushed a bill to criminalize a late term abortion known as partial birth abortion. The 7-5 party line vote by the House Judiciary subcommittee sent the measure to the full committee amid Democratic opposition warning it signals a broad antiabortion push.
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House
House Judiciary Constitution
Charles Canady
R-Fla
Radio hosts plan boycott of Liddy speech award
Texas peers report members of the National Association of Radio Talk Show Hosts plan to boycott a ceremony giving G Gordon Liddy a Freedom of Speech Award after Liddy advised on killing federal agents. Mary Beal from Jacksonville says she cannot attend. Mario Cuomo has refused to present the award.
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National Association of Radio
G. Gordon Liddy
Mary Beal
Jacksonville
Fla
Atlantis Mir docking mission marked as first joint space venture
NASA Administrator Dan Goldin called the Atlantis-Mir rendezvous an incredible mission that blends U S and Russian space tech The five day flight from Kennedy Space Center will include six American and four Russian astronauts and two spacewalks It aims to gain docking experience toward constructing the International Space Station and signals a new era of international cooperation in space
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Scripps Howard News Service
Washington
Mir
NASA
Dan Goldin
Goldin
Kennedy Space Center
Florida
United States
Atlantis
Spacelab
Atlantis Cargo Bay
Russia
Cemetery uproots remains to resell graves in California
In Santa Fe Springs California authorities said Paradise Memorial Park staff exhumed and dumped bones in a dirt pile to resell graves repeatedly. Relatives watched as investigators dug through the mound seeking clues to the number and identities involved.
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Santa FE Springs
Calif
Paradise Memorial Park
Graduation poem read as nude student shocks Liberty ceremony
Eva Noel Bevilacqua, 35, read a poem at a high school equivalency ceremony in Liberty New York while nude except for leather boots, sparking mixed reactions from officials and attendees. school officials allowed the reading to finish. Separately, authorities reported 200 discarded grave markers found at a 10 acre site near Paradise Memorial, a historic black owned cemetery south of Los Angeles established in 1927.
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Liberty
N.Y
Eva- Noel Bevilacqua
Kevin Colpoys
Sullivan County Board of Cooperative Educational Services
Paradise Memorial
Los Angeles
Santa Fe Springs
Documents reveal body snatching plan in Cold War era
Declassified documents show the Atomic Energy Commission pursued a covert program, codenamed Operations Sunshine, to collect up to 1500 cadavers in the United States and abroad for studying radioactive fallout effects. The searches targeted urban and poorer populations, with families and doctors kept in the dark about the tests. Willard Libby urged rapid progress at a 1955 secret meeting.
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AEC
United States
Europe
Australia
Willard Libby
University of Chicago
Division of Biology and Medicine
Advisory Committee On
Pacific
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