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...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...
Lingle was not present to hear the verdict. He resigned from the Singapore fellowship in mid-October after initial questioning by police and returned to the U.S. to seek another academic post. From his home in Atlanta, Lingle last week described the court case as a ``cynical political move.'' He added, ``It seems to me that my commentary could not scandalize Singapore's judiciary.'' He said he hoped to return to Singapore someday, but not until he was satisfied that the climate for individual freedom had improved...
Former HUD secretary Jack Kemp will not seek theGOP nomination for president in 1996, Republican Party sources said today. Kemp, once a darling of the far right, reportedly told associates he could not mount a viable campaign at a time when he is out of step with the Party's increasingly aggressive agenda: He opposes term limits, favors tax cuts instead of a balanced-budget amendment and, unlike the vast majority of GOP members, backs federal incentives to combat urban poverty...
...person is considering suicide, they should try and share it with someone they feel will understand them, and that person should try to get them to seek professional help, or [the person contemplating suicide] should go directly for professional help," he said...
...despite declarations about the end of the cold war. The U.S. military budget keeps growing, along with Washington's combat strength. We monitor this closely. Only naive people who do not know Russia might believe that our military will accept the position of second best in the world. We seek to be equal to the strongest. Yeltsin has denied us our most precious professional feeling: a sense of pride in our own might. The military will never forgive him for that...