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...walrus--at Mollie Beattie, the director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, is among the most powerful of a group of environmentally unfriendly lawmakers from Western states. As chairman of the House Resources Committee, he has decisive say over a controversial rewrite--or gutting, as Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has put it--of the 1973 Endangered Species Act. Last week Young and his allies rolled over Democrats and even a few moderate Republicans on the committee to move a step closer to a less expansive version of the law. In one of its most controversial provisions, it would eliminate...
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic announced Wednesday that two French pilots shot down over Bosnia on August 30 have been kidnapped from a hospital where Serbs say they had been held. In Paris, TIME's Bruce Crumley reports that exasperated French officials now don't know whom or what to believe: "Foreign Minister Herve de Charette claimed he had no information on the subject at all, and called the entire episode 'grotesque.' Sources at his ministry confirmed that the government had no confirmation on the kidnapping -- nor anything else since the two men were shot down. 'We know nothing, nothing...
...demanded that President Jacques Chirac cancel a planned meeting with Algerian President Liamine Zeroual next week, suspend all aid to Algiers, and denounce next month's Algerian presidential election. "What the militants don't understand is that Chirac is planning to read Zeroual the riot act," TIME's Bruce Crumley reports from Paris. "He's going to tell him that France not only wants to see democratic elections, but wants to see democracy in every phase of the society. Regarding the terrorism, a problem for the French government is that the terrorists do not speak with one voice. So even...
...People v. Orenthal James Simpson was the first exposure to the practice of law. In the room too was an assembly of friends of the prosecution, including Ron Shipp, and Nicole's friend Candace Garvey. Also present were Garvey's famous husband Steve, the retired baseball player, and Olympian Bruce Jenner and his wife Kris, who was at one time married to Robert Kardashian. While the court clerk read the verdict, Shipp closed his eyes and gripped a friend's hand...
...uncertain smile flickered across Simpson's face, the watchers were frozen--until Marcia Clark's assistant Patti Jo Fairbanks leapt from her chair. "Oh, God, I gotta get the families up here," she cried. Her sudden movement set the others talking or crying like a lot of windup toys. Bruce Jenner stared at the screen, muttering, "You got away with murder, you got away with murder" over and over. Deputy district attorney Yochelson blocked the television, saying to the group, "I want to tell all of you that we did the best we could. I am sorry. But I need...