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...homeless, knife-wielding man shot outside the White House Tuesday was charged today with assaulting a federal officer. The single charge carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison. The accused, Marcelino Corniel, remained hospitalized in critical condition today in a nearby hospital. Corniel was shot twice by U.S. Park Police officers after charging across Pennsylvania Ave. brandishing a knife. Police defended the shooting, pointing out that Corniel refused repeated requests to surrender the weapon, which was strapped...
...Park Police officer shot and wounded a homeless man outside the White House, apparently after the man charged across Pennsylvania Avenue toward the officer with a knife taped to his hand. Witnesses said Marcelino Corniel, who sleeps in Lafayette Park across from the presidential home, stood still in a semicircle of four officers when one of them advanced, and after Corniel lunged, the officer fired twice, wounding him in the chest and right leg. (Corniel was in critical condition late this afternoon.) But the Park Police, who defended the shooting, released a videotape of the confrontation's final moments, basically...
...independence from Portugal in 1975 after a bloody eleven-year civil war. Last week the younger of the two men, Foreign Minister Joaquim Chissano, 47, was selected by the party's 130-member Central Committee to succeed Machel as President. In choosing the urbane, pragmatic Chissano over Vice President Marcelino dos Santos, who is a hard-line Marxist, the party signaled a continuation of Machel's flexible, westward-looking policies...
...Marcelino dos Santos, the number-two man in Mozambique's ruling Frelimo party, said in a nationwide radio address that Machel, 53, and other senior officials died in the crash of the presidential plane Sunday night just across the border in South Africa "in circumstances not yet clarified...
...Civil War in 1939 - gathered outside the Carabanchel Prison in the southwest outskirts of Madrid. As the Te Deum mass for Juan Carlos was scheduled to begin at San Jerónimo, the protesters marched on the sprawling prison, where a number of prominent leftists, including Trade Union Leader Marcelino Camacho, were incarcerated. Mounted police charged the crowd and dispersed them with tear gas, clubs and a water cannon. There were no injuries, and the 23 people arrested were released within 24 hours...