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Meanwhile, the Packwood debacle promises to reverberate for months--perhaps years--to come. In Oregon, state law does not authorize the Governor to appoint an interim Senator, but instead requires a special election. If Governor John Kitzhaber, a Democrat, selects a date within 80 days, the two parties will choose the candidates, who will then face an open election. If Kitzhaber chooses a later date, there will be both a primary and a general election. Oregon has not sent a fresh face to the Senate since Packwood's first election in 1968-when he ran a memorably aggressive campaign that...
...largest library that's done that to date," he said in an interview yesterday. "We're really proud of that...
...offensive as Fuhrman's words may be, they are nothing when compared with the scandal in Philadelphia. To date, along with Brown, five other cops have pleaded guilty to such charges as setting up innocent victims, selling drugs and beating and threatening people, primarily poor blacks in the 39th District. As a result, 46 of their criminal convictions have been overturned, with many more still to come. Last week federal investigators expanded their search to include the Highway Patrol, subpoenaing logs of as many as 100,000 arrests over 10 years. "It's nothing new," says Jerry Day, sitting...
...Burpee, director of the National Hurricane Center near Miami, have so many hurricanes formed so early in the year. So far, 12 tropical storms have materialized off the west coast of Africa, six of which have grown into full-fledged hurricanes. The good news is that the damage to date--floods in the Carolinas, toppled trees and power lines in Central Florida, mud slides on the Caribbean island of Martinique--has been comparatively mild. The bad news is that more big storms are on their way, and before the end of November, when the season officially ends...
...security measures, it now appears, were not effective. In April, Arafat had persuaded Hamas to desist from terrorism at least until July 1, the original target date for an agreement on expanding the Authority's jurisdiction in the West Bank. Despite the sweeps during the cease-fire, Hamas had no trouble returning to violence once its term...