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Both prosecution and defense had tried to play on the jury's emotions. Pope brought in law-enforcement agents who testified to Smith's "strange and inappropriate" behavior during the nine-day search for her children. Eddie Harris, who transported Smith to interrogations during that period, testified that Smith said she was looking forward to going to the beach and learning how to dance the shag. Sandra Conradi, the forensic pathologist who conducted the autopsies on Michael and Alex, described death by drowning in excruciating detail. And while jurors were spared the autopsy photos, they did view videotaped re-enactments...
President Clinton has invitedSinn Fein leader Gerry Adamsto the White House for a St. Patrick's Day reception next week. Clinton press secretary Mike McCurry said that Adams will be allowed to engage in fund-raising for the first time in the U.S. during his nine-day visit. The White House stop would be the first meeting between a U.S. president and the leader of the political arm of the Irish Republican Army. Adams did not meet Clinton when he came to the U.S. last December. McCurry said the President personally decided to grant Adams a three-month visa this...
...meter is still running. The 53-year-old Miami resident smoked three packs a day for almost four decades; now he has emphysema and needs bottled oxygen to breathe. Medicaid-i.e., taxpayers-foots the bill for his respiratory problems ($400 a month for oxygen, $18,000 for a nine-day hospital stay last year). Despite the tab he's already rung up, Stark still puffs his way through half a pack a day: "I just have this unbelievable craving,'' he says. Stark admits nobody made him start smoking, but since tobacco companies make the product he just...
World population growth during the nine-day world population conference in Cairo
...delayed shuttle Discovery lifted off at 6:23 p.m. EDT, with six NASA astronauts aboard. Among the highlights of the nine-day mission: the first untethered space walk in 10 years (using a $7 million, James Bond-style jet pack) and the first U.S. robot to fly in space...