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BILL BRADLEY has taken the toughest position on guns of any major candidate in recent history. He wants a license-registration system for handguns...
...fund-raising gimmick by the party to tap into campaign war chests by making the front runners and the foolhardy pay for the privilege of participating. But with a front-loaded primary season and George W. Bush miles ahead of his heel nippers, the Ames straw poll has taken on an unnatural significance. Republican candidates want to trip up Bush, and they're happy to spend lots of money to do so. And if they turn up losers, the Ames contest, for all its illegitimacy, may force them...
...just long enough to kill as many of the people that greedily sought my destruction." But Barton also speaks in a 1995 deposition, obtained by TIME, in which he narrates his life in sober and calculated tones. Barton was trying to collect the $600,000 in insurance he had taken out on his first wife months before she and her mother were murdered in Alabama in 1993. The police had considered Barton a suspect, so the insurance company balked, subjecting him to six hours of questioning...
...scatters clues but no answers. He wrote: "I have been dying since October. I wake up at night so afraid, so terrified that I couldn't be that afraid while awake it has taken its toll. I have come to hate this life and this system of things. I have come to have no hope ... The fears of the father are transferred to the son. It was from my father to me and from me to my son... I'm sure the details don't matter. There is no excuse, no good reason I am sure no one will understand...
...cocaine. She reportedly told investigators that she had mailed six packages to New York for her husband?s chauffeur, without inquiring as to their contents. Police questioned the unnamed recipient of the drugs, who was found in possession of a second bag of cocaine and admitted to having taken delivery of similar packages sent from Bogota, which he?d been paid to receive. Although the Army cleared Colonel Hiett of any wrongdoing, his request for a transfer was granted...