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...Angeles federal judge struck down as unconstitutional key portions of California's Proposition 187, the state's tough voter-approved initiative that seeks to deny public services to illegal immigrants. Among the sections that were knocked down: one that would bar illegal-alien children from attending elementary and secondary public schools. The state said it would appeal the ruling, which many observers believe is headed for the Supreme Court...
...controversy has created a hot little industry. Ray Santilli, the Englishman who is peddling the footage, says it has been seen in 32 countries. Britain's Channel Four aired a documentary on the subject. In the U.S. an hour-long show called Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction? has become a staple of Fox TV--the X-Files network--and has been among the top 25 sellers in video stores. Before the end of the year, the tape will be offered in 35 catalogs, including the Publishers Clearing House mailings...
...Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek: The Next Generation as host, debuted to surprisingly high ratings in late August. It was hastily scheduled to play again a week later with some unaired footage. The program will air a third time on Saturday, with clips that may reveal hints of the alien's spacecraft and language. Says executive producer Robert Kiviat: "We're approaching it like a detective story." By doling out a few new clues in each episode, Alien Autopsy could end up running more times than Murder...
Santilli says that on a trip to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1992, he met an elderly man who identified himself as a former Army photographer present at the autopsy of the Roswell alien, performed at Fort Worth Army Air Field. This man, says Santilli, offered to sell the movies he made there. Says the entrepreneur: "The whole thing was just way too fascinating to let go." The mysterious cameraman still declines to reveal himself, though Santilli says, "I think he will step forward within the very near future...
...young man's attempt to break from his father's inflamed obsession with anti-Semitism and its central event of this century, Hitler's Final Solution. Edgy with irony and urban humor, the book also gives a rare insider's view of an insular Jewish community that is as alien to mainstream American Jewry as it is to the rest of the country...