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...launchers. A spokesman for the U.N. Special Commission on Iraq said last week that some launchers had been destroyed under U.N. supervision and that the Iraqis claimed to have scrapped the rest on their own. There was no evidence to disprove the Iraqi claim. In Washington, the Pentagon's Pete Williams conceded that damage to the Scuds "was less than we previously thought...
California Governor PETE WILSON has launched an official investigation of the National Guard's response during the Los Angeles riots last month. No wonder: he called up the Guard at 9 p.m. on the first night of rioting, as hundreds of fires burned. But by 2 p.m. the following day, as the looting continued, the troops were still not on the streets. Wilson demanded an explanation, and was told that the Guard was short of ammunition. Asked the onetime Marine: "If you give each man one bullet, and a larger quantity to unit commanders, can you, No. 1, ensure...
...welfare. In the past year, about 40 states have reduced or frozen benefits, and many have tightened eligibility requirements. Among them, Michigan and Ohio have cut off all payments to 170,000 recipients of general assistance, which provides aid to impoverished single adults, and California Governor Pete Wilson has proposed to reduce AFDC payments as much...
...University of California, Berkeley, are fanning out to describe the world in their own funky Fodor's series, THE BERKELEY GUIDES. The free-wheeling new guides offer warnings about beaches that "suck" and restaurants that are "yucko." The guides are printed on recycled paper with soy-based ink. Sniffs Pete Deemer, publishing director of the Harvard series: "Theirs may be more environmentally friendly, but ours won't get thrown out as much...
...Angeles authorities were still booking the last of some 16,900 people arrested for riot-related crimes. California Governor Pete Wilson signed a special law giving them more time. Under existing law, which specified that they had to be arraigned within 48 hours of arrest, thousands would have had to be allowed to walk free. In the city, as nationally, the air was filled with recriminations, mostly over charges that the police had been slow to mobilize to contain the riot -- in fact had pulled out after the first confrontations and, lacking a contingency plan, taken a disastrously long time...