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...presidential panel charged with investigating radiation experiments on human subjects will urge the federal government to compensate some of the subjects of those tests and issue a blanket apology to all involved, according to a published report...
...before it started, declaring that it failed to meet "minimally accepted standards." In Washington, Jesse Helms, head of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, decried the $235 million Clinton has pledged to Haiti for 1995 and said, "It's time for the President and his advisers to stop playing beach-blanket bingo with Aristide." Helms also said that his committee would soon hold hearings examining the "countless irregular activities...
...Dole's speech who hasn't echoed Billy Crystal's comment during Dan Quayle's fling with 'Murphy Brown:' 'Every time they say the phrase 'Hollywood elite' you can hear the unspoken word 'Jew.'" Rather than refuting the substance of Quayle's critique, Crystal reaches for the security blanket of the anti-Semitism charge...
...Utah chief medical examiner Todd Grey at last month's pretrial hearing. In a civil suit, Aaron's parents claim that some counselors taunted him for slowing down the group. As punishment, the suit continues, North Star took away Aaron's sleeping bag, leaving him with only a blanket in the sometimes freezing desert nights. "I am in terrible condition here," one of his final, anguished journal entries reads, "My hands are all chapped & my lips are cracking. I feel like I'm losing control of my body." On March 31, Aaron collapsed on the trail and died...
...wanted something to eat. He nodded, and an MRE -- a meal, ready-to-eat-was passed forward. O'Grady took three or four bites of the chicken stew and then said he couldn't eat any more. His uncontrollable shivering started up again, and someone wrapped a thermal blanket around his shoulders. "I was just so relieved," said Castro. "My heart was still pumping so hard -- we finally...