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...married in April, was the son of martial-arts cult hero Bruce Lee, many of whose fans smelled mystery in his own sudden death from brain swelling in 1973. There may be solid ground for speculation about his son's demise...
Apple said the Flowers' allegations of martial infidelity against Bill Clinton appeared first in The Star, the tabloid sold widely in supermarkets. He said reporters who had investigated Clinton in 1990 and 1991 had heard her story but rejected it because she lacked concrete proof and corroboration...
...Defense Department has a designated candidate for the Navy post but is holding back the public announcement in order to justify not releasing the Tailhook findings. The unreleased report on drunken aviators molesting women at the 1991 Tailhook Association convention is devastating: it's expected to recommend courts-martial for at least 12 senior Navy officers. Pentagon officials (with White House blessing) want to stall the findings until after March 23 -- when the defense budget goes to Congress...
Armies in all civilized countries receive intensive indoctrination on decent behavior and on what offenses, including rape, will result in court-martial. It is the job of officers to control their men. Elite units are the least likely to commit rape and other atrocities, although SS men in World War II proved the exception. Says the military historian John Keegan: "Elite units have a rather high opinion of themselves and consider atrocity to be beneath them." A soldier who murders or rapes disgraces his comrades and damages esprit de corps...
Among the attackers: Paramount TV this month unveiled not only Deep Space Nine but also The Untouchables, a new version of the Prohibition gangster saga. Warner Bros. TV has lined up 142 stations to carry Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, with David Carradine back as a mystic martial artist, and Time Trax, about a 22nd century cop who goes time-traveling in search of criminals who have escaped to the 20th century. They join such other hours as Highlander (the adventures of a centuries-old Scottish "immortal"), Renegade (Lorenzo Lamas as a motorcycle-riding ex-cop) and Street Justice...