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Shortly after the shooting, anonymous callers telephoned TV stations to warn that more police officials would be harmed if the investigation of Aum was not called off. But if the assault was meant to intimidate authorities, there were no signs of anyone backing off. All week investigators continued to dig into the cult's compounds in a rural village near Mount Fuji. According to a police spokesman, the investigators were gathering evidence that sect leaders planned to make poison gas "in preparation for murder,'' the closest that authorities have come to implicating Aum. Police unearthed tons of suspect chemicals, drugs...
...getting a phone call from a "livid" White House this morning. Booth says U.S. officials fear the release of such lists, compiled with dubious information, only undercut U.S. efforts in Haiti. Besides, she adds, such "hit lists" already abound in Haiti: "We're not going down these lists and warning people," a U.S. diplomat in Port-au-Prince told TIME today. "There are a lot of lists. Lists of 100. Lists of 30. Supposed lists. Real lists. Left lists. Right lists. A lot of imagined lists. We're not going down some list of 27 and warning people. Most know...
...school is concerned with heavy drinking, then they have to have a consistent policy," he said, adding that it is not enough to simply warn students against underage drinking...
Some experts warn, however, that the victims' rights movement has its own risks. Professor Robert Mosteller of Duke University Law School is worried that some survivors may be worse off if they come into court and see a defendant get a light sentence. And even those who favor court appearances caution against unrealistic expectations. Observes psychologist Dean Kilpatrick of the Medical University of South Carolina: "There is a tendency for victims to think, 'Once it goes to court, it's over.' But it's not over. Being the victim of a violent crime changes your life...
Topol has since filed civil suits not only against Woodfield and Penn but against Bates as well for failing to warn Penn of Woodfield's record. Having supported her before, Penn has reversed course: in a pretrial memorandum filed in February, Penn charges that the affair "grew out of her strong sexual attraction to and romantic feelings for Woodfield." Penn has asked for her diary to prove her consent; meanwhile, says Topol's lawyer, Alice Ballard, Bates is trying to get records from her psychotherapist...