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...wrangling with Governor Jeb Bush this year--over capital punishment. Within two hours of the court's decision, the Vice President got more good news. The canvassing board in Miami-Dade County decided to begin a hand recount of its 654,000 votes. And a federal appeals court in Atlanta rejected Bush's plea to stop all manual recounts on constitutional grounds...
DIED. HOSEA WILLIAMS, 74, fiery, foghorn-voiced civil rights leader and deputy to Martin Luther King Jr.; of cancer; in Atlanta. Williams joined the civil rights struggle after taking his sons to a drugstore in 1950s Savannah, Ga., and seeing them cry when he told them they couldn't spin on the soda-fountain stools with the white children. He led the 1965 "Bloody Sunday" march in Selma, Ala., and later turned his efforts to the poor and homeless. Though he won election to local and state offices, he said one of his happiest days was in '63--when...
...Belgium, Britain and Singapore. After graduating with a management degree from Georgia Tech in 1983, he used $15,000 from his dad to help start a company that chartered planes to larger airlines. He sold out five years later and became an industry consultant. Four years after that, his Atlanta-based boss, Hollis Harris, was named Air Canada president, a job he held until 1996. Harris brought Milton to Montreal to rationalize Air Canada's inefficient cargo division...
...Bush notifies the Federal Court of Appeals in Atlanta that he will contest the rulings of both the Miami and Orlando U.S. District Courts...
...Both sides file briefs in the Federal Court of Appeals in Atlanta. Bush's team reiterates its case that hand counts are unconstitutional; Gore's team continues to insist that federal courts have no say in the matter...