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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Guiseppe's heart condition becomes critical, Gerry must grow up. He does things he would never have done before: He rubs menthol on his father's chest, saves the life of a warden, and begins to cooperate with the young lawyer, Gareth Peirce (Emma Thompson) who is trying to seek an appeal for their case...
Such violence is rare, but more and more athletes are being forced to deal with the warped actions of obsessive fans. Katarina Witt, the sexy, stylish German star who won Olympic gold in 1984 and 1988, had to seek an injunction at a U.S. federal court in 1992 against a man who was terrorizing her with obscene and threatening letters. He was committed to a psychiatric hospital for three years...
...like a gathering of foreign dignitaries. Very possibly. Security checks at tennis tournaments have multiplied since Seles was stabbed. The figure-skating world is still too stunned to have any retaliatory plan in mind, but change is inevitable. Says Claire Ferguson, president of the U.S.F.S.A.: "We shall have to seek out ways to protect our athletes...
...information contained in the files. Five boxes of papers have been given to the Justice Department, with more to come in the next two or three weeks. The delay, said the White House, was because of the need to "catalogue" the papers. Attorney General Janet Reno said she might seek a court-appointed special prosecutor to pursue the case if a new special- prosecutor bill passes in Congress...
...labor costs. However, Donald Ratajczak, director of economic forecasting at Georgia State University, noted growing signs of labor unrest. "The American Airlines strike may have been a watershed," he said, referring to the Thanksgiving-week walkout by flight attendants, which ended when Clinton prodded the company to seek binding arbitration. "This is the beginning of intensifying wage pressures, or at least demands for retribution in the labor markets...