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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...
...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...
...Lewis' bodyguard, sparking the type of free-for-all rarely seen outside the set of the Jerry Springer Show. Tyson, who despite his pugilistic power insists on doing battle with his teeth, reportedly bit Lewis on the leg. Chances are the incident will not go over well with the Nevada State Athletic Commission, which suspended Tyson's license in 1997 after he bit off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear. The commission is still considering whether or not to reinstate Tyson's license for the Lewis fight, scheduled to take place April 6 in Las Vegas. At stake...
...three-day, $100,000 race to 120 in Hong Kong?billed "The Color of Money I"?against top American Earl Strickland, winning 120-117 and collecting $75,000 (less a $10,000 winner-to-loser payment he and Strickland agreed to before the match). A year earlier in Reno, Nevada, again facing Strickland, he had produced one of the most memorable shots on record. "Earl left him on the end rail totally tied up behind the nine ball," recalls Helfert, the tournament director. "It looked like there was no possible way for him to hit the object ball, which...