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...money among themselves. They buried the body in a shallow grave they had dug under a rubber tree in the backyard. Kim wore gloves to drive Tay's car away from the house, and left it with the keys in the ignition in the largely working-class city of Compton, near Los Angeles. By 9 p.m., the Tays had begun to worry and called their son's friends looking for him. Just an hour later police found his stripped car in an alley. By this time the teenagers had gone their separate ways; Acosta and Kang were said to have...
...captured the most seats (four) on the debate panels, and some people in Washington wonder if it's a coincidence that the network also seems to enjoy the coziest relations with the Administration. White House correspondent Ann Compton, who has arranged blind dates for White House counsel C. Boyden Gray, was chosen for the Oct. 11 session. ABC political director Hal Bruno and correspondent Carole Simpson will be on later panels. NBC, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal have declined to participate, objecting to the protocol giving the candidates a say in choosing panel reporters...
...four debates, they fielded only two questions on civil rights. In 1980 Ronald Reagan got off scot-free when he confidently forecast that his economic elixir of tax cuts and defense hikes would miraculously produce "a balanced budget by 1983, if not earlier." At least in 1988 Ann Compton of ABC deserved credit for pressing George Bush: "Isn't the phrase 'no new taxes' misleading the voters?" With mangled syntax, Bush responded lamely, "No because that's -- that -- I'm pledged to that...
...television news videotape, are described by police as criminals linked to a vicious South Central gang known as the 8-Trey Gangster Crips. But supporters see the defendants as five young black men being scapegoated by a racist legal system that will not give them a fair trial. Says Compton City Councillor Patricia Moore: "The greatest fears we have are not of gangs, but of the criminal justice system." With 25% of all black men between 20 and 29 years old in prison, on parole or on probation, Moore is convinced the five will not receive a fair trial. Moore...
...company's finances, they say, Icahn's real goal may be to use Chapter 11 as a shelter from which to conduct fare wars like his current battle with American Airlines. "Chapter 11 can be a good opportunity for a company to cleanse itself of past mistakes," says Bill Compton, chairman of the pilots' union local at TWA. "But how do you do that when you have the same managers and employees who created the problems in the first place...