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...Abramson, claims his confession was extracted by police while he was drugged. His friend Cash, now 19 and an aspiring nuclear engineer in his sophomore year at Berkeley, is not charged with anything, but he faces a trial of another kind, from angry Californians. The tale of the bad Samaritan has touched a nerve...
...seems out of touch; if he dwells on it too much he opens himself to charges of not having done more sooner, and risks sowing panic. Stung by Republican complaints that he hasn't addressed the Y2K problem, Clinton said he'll ask Congress to approve a "Good Samaritan" law to encourage corporations to share Y2K information and, if Y2K-compliant, to declare that their products are bugproof. "If ordinary citizens believe they are being told the full story, they'll be far less likely to act in ways that could themselves hurt our economy," Clinton said during a speech...
...crash, rather than being involved in a high-speed chase of Diana's car. One even claims his client actually checked the Princess's pulse while taking pictures of the wreckage. If this is true, it may save the photographer's skin as far as France's Good Samaritan Law is concerned. The court of public opinion may not be so forgiving...
...years later, she claimed two-thirds of the vote during the year of Republican political upheaval. A moderate to conservative Democrat, she voted against the ban on assault weapons, opposed lifting the ban on gays in the military, sponsored legislation for term limits and drafted the Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, which passed both houses this summer...
Another cause of the executive committee's reluctance to anoint Franklin may have been his run-in with the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, a self-policing organization his father helped found. In 1992 the council suspended Samaritan's Purse while it looked into Franklin's compensation and use of the company plane. Word leaked to the National Enquirer, which purported to quote Billy saying Franklin was "going to destroy what I've worked for years to build." Franklin pulled out of the council, calling its members "crummy little evangelical busybodies" who were "jealous of me." Two years later...