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Danny Piper, a retired Air Force colonel, once believed the Air Force could fairly investigate its own wreckage. He's changed his mind, he says, "the hard way." On April 14, 1994, his daughter, Lieut. Laura Piper, 25, was one of 26 people killed when Air Force F-15s shot down two Army helicopters over Iraq. Four senior officers, including two generals, have declined to testify at hearings, citing the right against self-incrimination. The court-martial of AWACS Captain Jim Wang, the only officer facing trial in the shootdown, is scheduled for next week. The tragedy, says Diehl...
...Guiding Light, the soap is selling Reva: The Scarlet Years. ABC is pushing Daytime's Greatest Weddings, a three-part collection featuring memorable nuptials from three of the network's soaps: All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital. "We knew people wanted to see Luke and Laura's wedding again," says abc Daytime president Pat Fili-Krushel of the 1981 G.H. episode that garnered through-the-roof ratings. "People remember where they were and what they were doing when these events happened." Finally, there is All About Erica, which chronicles the life of Susan Lucci's celebrated...
...Laura Eggertson, 32, senior Washington correspondent, The Canadian Press, Toronto. She will concentrate on social change in Canada, the United States and the world...
Some economists believe budget cuts create economic distress if they go too far, too fast. Senior Clinton economic adviser Laura Tyson last week claimed that the massive budget cuts the Republicans envision might tip the economy into recession. Such statements strike some analysts as politically driven, since the Administration only two years ago pushed through a $325 billion, four-year deficit-reduction plan that it claimed would lead to lower interest rates and a healthy economy. That assertion has since proved correct...
While Tom named some of his plants after Twin Peaks characters (Catherine, Laura Palmer, Audrey) and Johnny often plays music to his "little ones," Mel decided that he didn't want to become too attached to his plants. "It's like in the olden days, when parents wouldn't name their kids until they were three or four years old because of the high death rate," he says...