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...Simpson's defensesuffered a setback when a North Carolina judge ruled that, despite screenwriter Laura Hart McKinny's assertion that Los Angeles Police detective Mark Furman used racial slurs during taped interviews, the defense could not compel her to testify. McKinney's testimony seemed to contradict the detective's flat denial that he had ever used such slurs during the past ten years when he was under cross-examination by defense attorney F. Lee Bailey. The defense would like to undercut that testimony, saysTIME's James Willwerth. "What's really at stake here is playing the racial card. The defense...
...would hop from peak to peak, guarding the withdrawal of the U.N. peacekeepers winding along roads in the valleys below. They will head west for Adriatic ports or east to Belgrade, assuming Serbia approves. While the allies want to bring tanks and other vehicles with them, heavy fire could compel them to destroy the weapons in place...
Speaking before Congress, several of these militia members lined up to explain the threats that compel them to arm and prepare for the eventual confrontation with a government gone mad. Along with murdering innocent civilians (and Vince Foster), the federal government, reports one militia leader, operates diabolical machines to create tornadoes to "confuse" midwesterners. That sounds reasonable. It looks like these wackos have been to Oz and back...
...Harvard's own Radiation Protection Office does not use suspension as a means to compel scientists to follow regulations, according to Ring...
Lebed: I never defended the White House. I defended common sense. They tried to push me, a Russian general, to shoot my own people in the capital of my own state. No such force exists that would compel me to do this. I'm not a policeman. My job is to deal with external enemies. Build up a national guard or whatever you want to deal with domestic problems, but leave the armed forces...