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Clinton administration officials say they have U.S. spy plane photo evidence of what could be a mass grave near Srebrenica. Some 10,000 Muslim men have been missing sinceSerbs swept through the region since last month. The photo may serve to confirm an earlier account by eyewitnesses from the eastern enclaves who claimed to have escaped from a warehouse where Serbs took refugees outside in large groups to be shot at the edge of mass graves. Assistant Secretary of State John Shattuck said today a fact-finding trip to central and northeastern Bosnia last week turned up numerous eyewitness accounts...
...past three weeks in Union, South Carolina, each day dawned blistering and dry and ended sticky. But just as word swept through court last Friday afternoon that the jury was about to come back with its sentence in the Susan Smith case, rain began to fall. And as Smith stood before the judge to learn she had been spared the death penalty, thunder rumbled. Courtroom spectators moved their gaze from defendant to windows and back again. Then, as swiftly as it had begun, the storm was over. A few minutes later, when Smith was led back to prison...
Some of the players swept into the Simpson maelstrom contend that cameras have made the case into The People vs. the Witnesses. Just ask Pablo Fenjves. A year after testifying about hearing Nicole Simpson's dog on the night of the murders, Fenjves is still greeted in supermarkets, "Hey, you're the 'plaintive wail' guy!" Tourists chase him down streets, and he has even received death threats. "It's a pretty terrifying experience," he says...
...Political speeches are basically a seduction, and what we really want is to be seduced, to be swept off our feet," Eddison said. "Secretly we all want to fall in love...
...years ago, such a statement would have got Martinez committed. In the bad old days, which swept across the past five decades, the Mistake by the Lake was host to geriatric front-office people, eccentric players and the entire entomological kingdom--one pitcher swallowed a moth while delivering the ball to the plate. Indians pitcher Bud Black, who made a brief sojourn in Cleveland in the '80s, says, "At the old ball park, it was always overcast, even on a sunny...