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...Russians and Latvians began shooting. The scene was bizarre as well as murderous. Some of the women were wearing, in effect, priceless bulletproof vests: they had hidden jewels in their corsets, which sent slugs ricocheting around the room. Pulses were checked and the stripped bodies loaded onto a truck for burial elsewhere. The "whole procedure," as Yurovsky called it, took 20 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: IN SEARCH OF THE ROMANOVS | 10/9/1995 | See Source »

...Showgirls" centers around Nomi Mallone, the films requisite woman-with-a-past. After her suitcase is stolen by a seedy truck driver who takes her to Las Vegas, Nomi pitches a fit in a casino parking lot. There she is befriended by Molly (Gina Ravera), the woman whose car she appears to be vandalizing, but nevermind. The two bond instantly, and Molly jumps at the chance to let Nomi live with...

Author: By Daley C. Haggar, | Title: Divas Las Vegas | 9/21/1995 | See Source »

...Somebody shouldn't think that because they're an eighth Navajo that they can back up a truck to a museum that happens to have Navajo artifacts," Stern said.DOUGLAS M. PRAVDAJOHN STUBBS (front), curatorial associate for archeology, and STEPHANIE LEE RITARI (rear), assistant for repatriation, work on cataloguing artifacts yesterday...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: Museum Returns Native American Sacred Artifacts | 9/19/1995 | See Source »

...there were more bad air days in August. In addition to the New York episode, terrorist fears caused a partial evacuation of Philadelphia International Airport when a bomb-sniffing dog incorrectly drew attention to a rental truck, and at Houston's Hobby Airport, where a flight was grounded after a college student joked to a ticket agent that her luggage contained guns, grenades and a bomb. Technological glitches wreaked havoc not only in Fremont but also in Miami, where an air-traffic-control center lost power for an hour because of a lightning strike. Both sorts of delay no doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OF FRIGHTS AND FLIGHTS | 9/11/1995 | See Source »

...after the nation's deadliest terrorist attack, a federal grand jury indicted the two prime suspects in the Oklahoma City case, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, on bombing and murder charges that could bring the death penalty to both. The indictment identified McVeigh as the driver who detonated the truck bomb. As part of a deal with prosecutors, Michael Fortier, a close Army buddy of McVeigh's, pleaded guilty to lesser charges, including lying and failing to notify authorities about the crime. He is expected to become the government's star witness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: AUGUST 6-12 | 8/21/1995 | See Source »

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