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...hosts were not exempt from family travail, not even cross-country skier Vegard Ulvang, whose love of risk and three 1992 gold medals make him Norway's best-loved sportsman and its choice to take the Olympic athlete's oath. An American reporter reduced him to tears at a press conference by asking about the impact on his training of his brother Ketil's disappearance while jogging last October and of Vegard's fruitless search for the body, lost in snow at least until the spring thaw...
...Even before arriving at Tailhook, the judge ruled, the admiral should have been primed to head off trouble, given the gathering's reputation for heavy drinking, porn films, strippers and prostitutes "as part of the planned activities in the hospitality suites." But three of Kelso's aides testified under oath that he was nowhere near the third-floor scene of the crime, much less a witness to the alleged assaults. In part because of the conflicting testimony, former Secretary of Defense Les Aspin last year turned down Navy Secretary John Dalton's recommendation that Kelso be removed...
...cases. Without the boy's evidence, the authorities may have only hearsay testimony -- probably not enough to win or even bring a case against Jackson. So for now his freedom is assured, if not his reputation. Neither he nor the boy will be required to relate bedtime intimacies under oath...
...Savings & Loan while he was Governor of Arkansas. Fiske, 63, is a former U.S. Attorney who served in the Ford and Carter Administrations. He said that he would not use Justice Department prosecutors in the probe and that he expects to question the President and Hillary Rodham Clinton under oath...
...determine Kerrigan's practice schedule. Gillooly, said Eckardt, also spoke of Harding's constructing an alibi for the calls. At no point in the affidavit does Eckardt mention ever discussing the plan directly with Harding. But the same day that the affidavit was released, Eckardt, no longer under oath, offered the Portland Oregonian a story far more damaging to Harding. As Stant stalked Kerrigan on the Cape, Eckardt said he was summoned by Gillooly to the Portland skating rink where Harding trains. Eckardt claimed that Harding skated up to him and said she was "pissed off and disappointed that these...