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...first, though, there had been hope. He met Audrey Warren, an American of Jamaican descent, married her in 1986, and qualified for permanent U.S. residency. The couple moved into a house on Long Island and had a son. Enrolled in a local community college, Ferguson made the dean's list three times. But that approximation of bliss collapsed in 1988, when Warren sued for divorce and won custody of their child. By last week, Ferguson was jobless and living in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, in a tiny $175-a-month room with a communal bath down the hall...
...took Warren Christopher not one but two trips last week between Jerusalem and Damascus before he managed to collect enough good news to end his Middle East mission. By Thursday the Secretary of State was able to announce that if there was nothing he could do to stem the violence between the Israelis and the Palestinians, he had at least managed to end Syria's boycott of the Middle East peace talks...
...American Academy of Pediatrics has called for a total gun ban; the American Medical Association wants to ban hollow-point bullets and raise taxes on gun sales. "Surgeons have been removing bullets since the invention of gunpowder," observes Franklin Zimring, a professor of law and director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, "but this is the first time you find a professional constituency like that involved in changing policy toward guns...
Often after Johnson won his way over someone, he would tell the story to others with relish, burnishing and enlarging the tale as he went. He did that in another call to Senator Russell relating how he had persuaded Chief Justice Earl Warren to chair the assassination commission. "You know what happened? Bobby ((Kennedy)) and them went up to see ((Warren)) today, and he turned them down cold and said no. Two hours later, I called him and ordered him down here, and he didn't want to come, and I insisted he come. He came down here...
...Johnson Senate majority leader, and a deferential L.B.J. had always claimed, "Dick Russell is like a daddy to me." Being President brought some change. "You never turned your country down," said Johnson, whose voice on the tape hammered at Russell's reluctance to serve on what would become the Warren Commission to investigate J.F.K.'s death. "Well, I could," responded Russell. "Well, this is not me; this is your country," said Johnson. "You're going to do it, and don't tell me what you can do and what you can't, because I can't arrest...