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DIED. HOWARD CANNON, 90, World War II pilot turned Democratic Senator from Nevada who lost re-election in 1982 after Teamster members were accused--and later convicted--of offering him a bribe for helping to kill a bill deregulating the trucking industry; in Las Vegas. He insisted he was never approached for a quid pro quo, and he was never indicted...
...count of obstruction of justice for allegedly destroying evidence related to the failed Enron Corp., by a federal grand jury; in Houston. LICENSED. Mike Tyson, 35, for a championship bout against current heavyweight titleholder Lennox Lewis; in Washington, D.C. Tyson was denied a boxing license by Nevada authorities, after a press conference melee in January...
...you’re multicultural enough to be curious about the inhabitants of the country that exists between the Sierra Nevada and the Appalachians, then you’d better hope you make a friend who’ll teach you how to sing “Ain’t Going Down (Till the Sun Comes Up)” while you’re doing 90 on the Mass Pike...
...group of U.S. officials believed that the worst nightmare of their lives--something even more horrific than 9/11--was about to come true. In October an intelligence alert went out to a small number of government agencies, including the Energy Department's top-secret Nuclear Emergency Search Team, based in Nevada. The report said that terrorists were thought to have obtained a 10-kiloton nuclear weapon from the Russian arsenal and planned to smuggle it into New York City. The source of the report was a mercurial agent code-named DRAGONFIRE, who intelligence officials believed was of "undetermined" reliability. But DRAGONFIRE...
DENIED. MIKE TYSON, 35, trouble-prone boxer; a license that would have allowed him to fight heavyweight champ Lennox Lewis in Las Vegas in April, following a prefight melee; by the Nevada State Athletic Commission; in Las Vegas...