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...only the minds at Dreamworks had thought to develop a sitcom around Duran Duran, TV's cannibalization of the 1980s would be complete. As it stands, more than a dozen faces familiar from the age of panty-hose-with-Reeboks will be starring in the season's new comedies and dramas. Former teen icons Molly Ringwald and Brooke Shields both have their own single-gal sitcoms (Townies on ABC and Suddenly Susan on NBC, respectively). Meanwhile Bill Cosby and Phylicia Rashad will be renewing their fictional marriage in CBS's Cosby. Also returning to TV comedy with hopes of another...
...from fishermen, corrupt politicians and a charismatic leader named Eduardo Veliz, the Galapagos' delegate to the National Congress. Tapping into widespread local resentment, Veliz pushed a law through the Congress that would give the islands enormous autonomy in setting their own rules for tourism and development. When President Sixto Duran Ballen vetoed the legislation and substituted a less favorable bill of his own, Veliz and his allies launched last month's mini-insurrection, threatening to hold tourists hostage and set fire to parts of the park if their demands for more home rule were...
...federal judge sentenced Francisco Martin Duran to 40 years in prison. Duran was convicted of trying to kill President Clinton when hesprayed the White House with bullets last October. Prosecutors had asked for a life sentence for Duran, who had argued that, in a fit of paranoid schizophrenia, he thought he had been chosen to shoot and kill an evil "mist" that was enveloping the White House. U.S. District Judge Charles Richey said the sentence, which includes no chance of parole, was sufficient both to punish him and to discourage others from similar attacks. Duran, sober and contrite in court...
CONVICTED. FRANCISCO MARTIN DURAN, 26, unemployed hotel upholsterer; of attempting to gun down President Clinton last October; in Washington. Duran faces life in prison at his June sentencing...
...bombs, has put together a classified list of recommendations that are being circulated among government agencies and members of Congress, CNN said. The panel was established by ex-Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen after an airplane crashed into the White House last September. In October, 26-year-old Francisco Martin Duran shot 27 rounds of ammunition across the north side of the building from the Pennsylvania Avenue sidewalk. Last week , he was convicted of attempting to assassinate the President...