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...events leading to the opening this week of one of the nation's most extraordinary sex-crime trials began with an encounter last June beside a fishing hole in Wisconsin's Menominee Park. Mark Peterson, 31, an Oshkosh grocery worker, wandered up to a group gathered on the bank and sat down beside a 26-year-old woman who called herself Franny. Over the next several minutes, as Peterson watched, her personality underwent several profound changes. Would you like to go dancing? he asked. Others who were present have since testified that they told Peterson the woman's true name...
Peterson nonetheless called Franny two days later and asked her out. According to the woman's pretrial testimony, they drove to an Oshkosh coffee shop, where Franny told Peterson about Jennifer, another personality, whom she described as a "20-year-old female who likes to dance and have fun." When the couple got back into Peterson's car, he summoned Jennifer and asked her, "Can I love you?" She answered, "O.K." (Later Jennifer would say she thought this was an invitation to go dancing...
Congressmen can also take in cash directly by giving speeches for honorariums -- a misnomer, since little honor is involved. Consider the $2,000 the Oshkosh Truck Corp. paid each of six members of the House Armed Services Committee on April 1, 1987, for coming to breakfast. The eggs had barely been digested when, a few hours later, an Armed Services subcommittee voted to purchase 500 more trucks from Oshkosh than the Army wanted...
...transported troops to victory in World War II and then re-entered civilian life to lure an entire generation to the skies. More than half a century after its debut in 1935, the Gooney Bird now has a second wind: Warren Basler, an air-freight operator and pilot in Oshkosh, Wis., has started outfitting refurbished DC-3s with turboprop-jet engines that will enable the planes to compete with modern aircraft...
Particularly questionable was a $2,000 payment on April 1, 1987, by the Oshkosh Truck Corp. to each of six House Armed Services Committee members just for coming to breakfast. A few hours later, an Armed Services subcommittee passed a measure to force the Army to buy 500 more Oshkosh trucks than it needs. Coincidence, says Oshkosh...