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...freelance writer who also collaborated with Norman Mailer on the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Executioner's Song." O.J. writes: "I could never kill anyone, especially Nicole," and complains of an untrustworthy legal system and a sensationalist and racist media. He says he would "jump in front of a bullet" to protect his ex-wife. Much of the book alternates between letters received in jail and Simpson's responses. He portrays himself as a spiritual man and a victim in the whole affair, and accuses the press of being unfair to him. A TV trial, he says, poses special problems: "Having...
...four times, Stutes acknowledges, "I was mad as hell -- and afraid." Today, he is still angry, but has less cause for fear: his new $1 million West End Women's Medical Group clinic, which opened in November, is a high-tech fortress with solid steel doors and magnetic locks, bullet-resistant windows, infrared motion detectors, panic buttons to summon police and a 70-ft. setback planted with thorn trees. Contractors experienced in prison and casino security designed the system, while some local SWAT-team police offered advice. "It's a bunker," Stutes says. "Flash Gordon couldn't get in here...
...David Keen, bullet manufacturer, extolling his "Black Rhino" ammunition
Signature Products of Huntsville, Alabama, burst onto the national scene with the announcement of a new product line: two novel types of exploding bullets, both designed to kill on impact with thousands of razor-sharp fragments. One type, the company's chief executive claimed, was specially built to pierce police bulletproof vests. Following a public uproar, Signature said it would hold off producing the vest-piercing bullet as a "responsible" gesture. That left many industry experts wondering whether the super "Rhino" ammunition was ever meant to shatter anything more than the firm's obscurity...
Trying to halt the peso crisis besetting his new administration, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo today signed a bullet-biting accord for wage and price restraints. Several hours later, in a nationally televised address, Zedillo tried to persuade ordinary Mexicans to join him in enforcing wage and price ceilings to avert any further devaluation or inflation. "Mexico is confronted with a serious economic crisis that will invariably affect the population and demand sacrifices by all," he said. Under the accord, business leaders would not raise prices on domestic goods, while workers would give up substantive pay hikes. Despite these moves, both...