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...finished their strawberry-covered cheesecake. Blanchard said he had seen a cadet's fiance wearing a brooch featuring maritime signal flags. Blanchard's joke: "She said the flags meant, 'I love you.' They really said, 'Permission granted to lay alongside.'" Then Blanchard offered one about his old buddy, Captain Patrick Stillman, the commandant of cadets. On Stillman's wedding night, Blanchard said, the captain told his bride she could do anything she wanted. "So she immediately went to sleep," he said. Finally there was the one about the cadet who wondered why his fiance was wolfing down a costly meal...
...campaign to bar American use of land mines had its first significant victory in 1992, when George Bush signed a bill sponsored by Vermont's Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy. The legislation outlawed the export of U.S.-made antipersonnel mines for one year. Later, Leahy succeeded in extending the law through 1997. Then in 1995 he won the votes for a one-year ban on the use of all mines, except along international borders and in demilitarized zones, to take effect in 1999. "Mines are the worst of human depravity," Leahy argued...
...Cambridge is unique," says Sergeant Detective Patrick G. Nagle, acting spokesperson for the Cambridge Police Department (CPD). "It's hard to compare to cities of similar size...
According to Detective Patrick G. Nagle of the Cambridge Police Department, Othega J. Mooney was shot at 7:10 p.m. in a park across the street from the mall...
...were killed in the now famous standoff at Ruby Ridge in 1992. Gritz was able to talk Weaver out of his cabin, and hopes to do the same for the Freemen. "Its hard to tell if Gritz has the credibility to bring the Freemen out," says TIME's Patrick Dawson. "The Freemen live in their own little world, isolated in their own milieu. Randy Weaver might have what it takes to convince the Freemen to come out, but Gritz has a huge, monumental ego and a sense of destiny. He's there for the publicity, and I don't think...