Word: cleaning
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...another mystery. Why has JAMES EARL RAY's defense team petitioned the court for a second rifle test? The request, in an affidavit filed this month in Memphis, Tenn., pleads that the defense was not allowed to properly clean the rifle before the first tests in Rhode Island last month. The judge called off last week's scheduled hearing, at which test results were to be revealed. The request, coupled with the defense's coyness about the results, suggests to some that the tests were inconclusive, as the Memphis district attorney general's office has always maintained they would...
...nervously trained on the American auto and energy industries, President Clinton spoke to the U.N. on the evils of global warming but steered clear of committing the U.S. to any specific reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. In an abrupt about-face from his recent support for tough domestic clean air regulations, Clinton's most substantial pledge was to supply developing countries with $1 billion over the next five years to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions. No better than "using a squirt gun to quell a raging fire," snipped Sierra Club President Adam Werbach. "With the whole world watching, the president...
...lets sizeable carbon dioxide-guzzlers such as China continue to pollute at will. The Administration plans to present its strategy at an international climate conference in Japan next year, but by that time, its agenda for climactic change could undergo some changes itself. One test case to watch -- new clean air regulations on smog and soot. TIME's Dick Thompson reports that while the Republican-dominated Congress, fresh from its recent disaster relief snafu, is in no mood to cast itself as environmental enemy no. 1, the White House does not want to tarnish its new image as the long...
McVeigh's case is just so clean. "The danger is [when] somebody says, 'If ever there was a case for the death penalty, this is the case,'" says Bright. "The problem is that we never limit it to that case. We have more than 3,000 people on death row, many without lawyers, and the overwhelming majority are not the Timothy McVeighs or Ted Bundys or John Wayne Gacys." Simply put, the most powerful argument against the death penalty is that it is dispensed by a justice system that favors some defendants over others. In February, the American Bar Association...
...pals to raise or donate $250,000 over the next two years to help retire the party's $14.5 million debt. The DNC has met all its money targets so far this year, and expects to raise at least $50 million in 1997. But while the flush and comparatively clean GOP continues to set the pace, the Democrats have had to stay ahead of Janet Reno's Untouchables; DNC officials say they will in the next two weeks return another $1.5 million in donations identified as coming from foreign or other suspect sources, bringing the refund total to more than...