Word: alibis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton's bold response actually carried little risk, at least politically. By dispatching thousands of troops and hundreds of planes, the President made clear the U.S. intention to defend Kuwait's sovereignty by whatever means necessary. To charges that he overreacted, he had a sturdy alibi; the mixed messages sent by the Bush Administration in 1990 were widely blamed for encouraging Saddam to overrun Kuwait without fear of reprisal. For once Congress was united in support; Clinton phoned Bush on Monday and got his blessing as well. Even Saddam's onetime allies, like Jordan and the P.L.O., supported the President...
...Simpson's alibi just got weaker. A coroner's report released earlier had indicated that Nicole Brown Simpson was alive and on the phone at 11 p.m. -- good news for O.J., who has witnesses to verify he was headed to the airport only shortly after 11 p.m. But court papers released today indicate that Nicole Simpson made that phone call...
...during its peculiar second week. The prosecution had opened with the testimony of limousine driver Allan Park and Simpson houseguest Brian ("Kato") Kaelin. Park, whose ferrying of Simpson to the Los Angeles airport at around 11:15 on the night of the murder had been part of Simpson's alibi, reported that O.J. did not answer his intercom until around 10:56. Shortly before that, Park added, he had glimpsed a 6-ft. 200-lb. African-American figure rushing across the lawn into the house. Kaelin, an aspiring actor who had boarded first at the home of Nicole Simpson...
...District Attorney has officially turned off the tap of information, clues like this one indicating the direction of the investigation continue to dribble out. At the same time, defense attorneys have been aggressively scrambling for evidence to undermine the D.A.'s case. But one "fact" supporting an O.J. alibi seems to have fallen through. Nicole Brown Simpson wasn't talking to her mother on the phone at 11 P.M. the night of the murders -- when O.J. was at home waiting for a limo to the airport. Nicole's father now says the conversation took place...
...admissible; it was broadcast live. Of course he did it -- he had beaten her before, he was high on coke, he had gone into a jealous rage; of course he didn't do it -- he loved her too much, he was incapable of such savagery, he had an airtight alibi. Maybe he could have done it, but surely he would have been smarter, hired someone else and not left a trail behind...