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...Johnson & Johnson subsidiary says it will plead guilty tomorrow to obstructing a federal probe of how it marketed Retin-A, an acne drug commonly prescribed as a wrinkle remover. The firm, Ortho Pharmaceuticals of Raritan, N.J., agreed to pay $7.5 million in fines and dismiss three senior employees who shredded documents sought by investigators. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration launched its investigation in 1991, concerned that Ortho had been promoting Retin-A for a non-approved use as a wrinkle cream...
...travelers, the wait was over all too soon. One traveler, an Algerian policeman identified during the passport check, was ordered by the hijackers to the front of the plane. Passengers heard him plead, "Don't kill . me, I have a wife and child!" The terrorists shot him in the head and dumped him outside onto a baggage cart, where he lay in agony for some time. The second victim was Bui Giang To, 48, a commercial attache at the Vietnamese embassy in Algiers. "They asked the Vietnamese man sitting in the rear to come forward," recounted one of the passengers...
Unusually smoggy Chicago weather set off thousands of newly-required home carbon monoxide detectors today, forcing city officials to plead for calm. The Fire Department responded to at least 2,000 calls in the past 24 hours from frightened residents who worried the alarms signaled high levels of the noxious, odorless gas. But forecasters attributed the phenomena to a "temperature inversion" that trapped several days' worth of smog in the area. Three months ago, Chicago became the first major city to require the devices. But today, fire officials criticized one of the largest manufacturers, First Alert Inc of suburban Aurora...
...checks worth more than $54,000 for press corps expense payments into his personal checking account and skimmed $14,000 from the office's petty-cash fund. Dale's lawyer said his client, one of the officials fired 18 months ago + in the Clinton Administration's "Travelgate" flap, would plead not guilty...
Former Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell has tentatively agreed to plead guilty to counts of mail fraud and tax evasion, the first charges brought by Kenneth Starr, the Whitewater independent counsel. Hubbell, a longtime friend of President and Mrs. Clinton's, is a former law partner of the First Lady's. Sources close to Hubbell's family told Time that it was "cheaper and easier" to settle. Hubbell had already spent $1 million to defend himself against an investigation so exhaustive that even the bank account of his 22-year-old son was examined -- all the way back...