Word: alabamas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...swell. Captain Melea Riley, who commands a training battalion including both men and women at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, says, "I have never come across a woman who said she would like to be in a combat infantry unit." Cornum, the bemedaled flight surgeon, now back at Fort Rucker, Alabama, confirms that. "Personally," she says, "I've never met a woman who wanted to be in the infantry...
Sitting next to Hillary Rodham Clinton, Alabama's Howell Heflin rose and joined in: "The First Lady wants to go to bed. If you would just stop answering questions, you could go to bed and take the First Lady with you." The room broke into applause...
When Guy Hunt became Governor of Alabama in 1987, he won a rare distinction: he was the state's first Republican chief executive since Reconstruction. Now Hunt has acquired a status he is surely less eager to embrace: the 59-year-old two-termer is the first Alabama Governor to be removed from office on a felony conviction. A jury decided Hunt was guilty of looting $200,000 for personal use from the very tax-exempt fund raised for his initial installation...
...spending package by $4 billion and perhaps more, rather than risk losing a measure he believes represents a "booster shot" to the anemic economic recovery. The President had learned the hard way that as long as the Democrats hold only a narrow six-vote majority (Democrat Richard Shelby of Alabama has been voting Republican recently) in the Senate, Clinton will need the votes of Jeffords and four or five other moderates to avoid the filibustering of more conservative Republicans...
...last year, the second highest total in the 14-year history of the ADL's audit. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force says attacks on homosexuals increased by 172% over the past five years. Klanwatch, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, reports that 1992 was "the deadliest and most violent year" for bias-related events in more than 10 years. Thirty-one of these were murders...