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Some irony was attached to that plea since the Fed's six increases of U.S. interest rates during the previous 11 months had helped create the Mexican crisis. As it was, the chairman's effort had only limited impact on Congress, where populist Republicans have been joining forces with anti-free trade Democrats to make passage of the bailout package unlikely in the near future. Democratic Senator Ernest Hollings of South Carolina denounced the loan-guarantee legislation as a ``billionaire bailout'' to save the fortunes of rich investors on both sides of the border. Though House Speaker Newt Gingrich expressed...
...sobbing Susan Smith, accused of drowning her two small boys in a car last October, appeared in court for her arraignment and learned that the prosecution would seek the death penalty. A South Carolina judge entered a not-guilty plea for her after the Union County mother declined to enter a plea...
...some months before Sampedro and Jorge Arroyo, his pro bono lawyer, learn whether Strasbourg will hear their plea, the first such to be put to the commission. Says Sampedro: ``Death is a taboo in our society. But for a psychologically mature person, voluntary death, when it is to bring to an end an incurable or intolerable suffering, is rational.'' A poem he has written called ``Why Die?'' answers itself in the first line: ``Porque el sueno se ha vuelto pesadilla'' (Because the dream has become a nightmare...
...split apart, she landed in a bed of algae and water lilies. Then, according to Erika, someone approached, ignored her cries for help but ripped a gold necklace from her neck and ran away. Witnesses say scavengers also looted the bodies of other passengers. Erika has issued a plea for the return of the necklace, which she says is the only memento of her father. Said one resident, Georgina Santamaria: ``God saved the girl, and he will punish the people who robbed her and the rest of the victims...
...room a few years later, she says, Simpson "beat me for hours as I kept crawling for the door" and forced her to have sex while he went on smacking her. The box also held Polaroids that show Nicole's face badly bruised, news clips about O.J.'s 1989 plea of no contest to charges of spousal abuse and three letters from him asking her forgiveness...