November 7, 1995
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Senate Tuesday took up a bill that would ban a rare type of late-term abortion. The House passed a similar measure last week, but the Senate debate is expected to be longer and more contentious.
The White House said it would not support the bill in its present form because it does not protect the life or health of the mother.
The abortion procedure, which foes call "partial birth" and doctors call an "intact D and E," has provided anti-abortion activists their most emotional arguments. If passed, the legislation would make the practice a felony, and could send doctors who perform it to prison.
BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Boston police have arrested a third man in connection with Monday's restaurant shooting that killed four people and critically injured another.
The suspect, whom police identified as the father of one of the other two suspects, arrested at Charlestown District Court immediately following the arraignment of the two other men taken into custody after the shooting..
Damian A. Clemente, 20, of Medford and Vincent J. Perez, 27, entered pleas of not guilty and will be held without bail. In addition, Perez will be sent to Bridgewater State Hospital for 20 days of psychiatric testing.
Police said the gunmen opened fire Monday afternoon on customers eating lunch at the 99 Restaurant & Pub in Charlestown, a blue-collar area on Boston's north side.
Reports in the Boston Globe suggested the victims had mob connections, but police said the shooting was "too sloppy" to be a hit by organized crime.
CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina (CNN) -- Jurors in North Carolina Tuesday found a law student not guilty by reason of insanity in the murder of two men.
Wendell Williamson will now be sent to a mental hospital. A hearing will be held within 50 days to determine whether he should be committed.
On January 26, Williamson was walking down the street near the University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill. He suddenly fished out a semi-automatic rifle, and began shooting randomly, killing two passers-by.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Government officials said an executive order designed to prevent political fringe groups in Israel from receiving funds from U.S. citizens appears to be working.
In January, President Clinton ordered that the assets of two Jewish groups and 10 Arab organizations in the United States be frozen. They were identified as organizations that were against the Middle East peace process.
A Treasury Department spokesman said the move has prevented fund-raising activities by American sympathizers of Kach and Kahane Chai, both right-wing Jewish groups.
The executive order prohibits what was once termed "charitable contributions" of funds, goods, or services from going to the groups.
LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- The jury in the retrial of the Menendez brothers on Tuesday heard more graphic testimony about the nature of the wounds caused by shotgun blasts to their wealthy parents.
Coroner Dr. Irwin Golden's revised statement about the wounds on Kitty Menendez's face provided a minor victory for the defense. Golden, who performed the autopsy, had originally said that the cheek wounds were made before death. He now maintains they were sustained post-mortem.
Eric, 24, and Lyle, 27, are undergoing a retrial for the August 20, 1989, murders of their parents. The young men have admitted to killing their parents, but say they did so in self-defense after years of emotional and physical abuse. The prosecution contends that the now-famous brothers acted out of greed.
The first trial, in 1994, ended with hung juries.
LOS ANGELES (CNN) - Federal authorities have served subpoenas to the Los Angeles Police Department asking for the work records of former detective Mark Fuhrman, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.
The newspaper said FBI agents and representatives of the U.S. Attorney's Office issued the subpoenas late last month.
The federal authorities began their civil rights investigation into Fuhrman after it became known during the O.J Simpson trial, where Fuhrman was a key prosecution witness, that the retired detective had admitted to beating up and framing suspects in several tape-recorded sessions with an aspiring screen writer.
During the Simpson trial, Fuhrman testified that he found a bloody glove on the former football star's estate the day after the June 12, 1994, murders of Simpson's ex-wife and her friend.
A jury found Simpson not guilty of the murders in October.
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (CNN) Five students at the U.S. Naval Academy face proceedings that could lead to their expulsion on drug charges. While not disclosing details, Navy officials said two midshipmen were arrested in October while trying to buy LSD. As a result, the Naval Academy gave drug tests to the entire 4,040-member student body over the next two days. None of the tests came back positive, but sources say 19 other midshipmen face possible punishment for drug use because of evidence gathered from other sources.
The incident is the latest of several scandals to tarnish the image of the Naval Academy Last year, 24 midshipmen were expelled for cheating. And in a 1989 sexual harassment case, male students handcuffed a female student to a urinal. In the current drug case, Navy officers will act as a grand jury to consider whether a court-martial is warranted. If tried and convicted, the midshipmen could face possible expulsion and prison sentences.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Local and federal officials are considering formation of a "strike team" to be used in case of a chemical or biological terrorist attack in the nation's capital, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. The plan reportedly will be presented Wednesday at a board meeting of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. If approved, officials hope to have the program, the first of its kind, operational within a year.
The Post said the plan under study by the Clinton administration and local officials was in reaction to incidents such as the poison gas attack on Tokyo's subways in March. Eleven people were killed and thousands were sickened. U.S. Public Health Service officials and local fire and police chiefs are proposing a team of as many as 30 specially trained medical people from the Washington area who would provide technical assistance to rescue workers handling chemical or biological attacks, the newspaper said.
LAS VEGAS (CNN) -- The Landmark Hotel where Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore, Jimmy Durante and Bob Newhart once performed was reduced to a pile of rubble Tuesday to make way for convention exhibit space and a parking lot. The once-elegant hotel with a 31-story space needle-shaped tower was demolished at dawn with dynamite strategically placed at the base of the structure. (1.2M QuickTime movie)
Police estimated some 7,000 people turned out to witness the implosion at 5:40 a.m. local time. Thousands more watched from nearby hotels or were awakened by the blast. The Landmark Hotel was opened in 1968 by billionaire Howard Hughes.
Before the implosion, a film crew shot segments of couples running down the street in front of hotel. Those scenes may be used in a proposed movie called "Mars Attacks," in which the hotel is destroyed during a Martian attack. The Landmark also was the setting for "Casino" a movie scheduled for release this month starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Sharon Stone.
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