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After four hours of deliberation, a jury convicted Francisco Martin Duran of trying to assassinate President Clinton on Oct. 29. The 26-year-old Duran is scheduled to be sentenced on June 29 and faces life in prison. His lawyers plan to seek a new trial but did not tell reporters on what grounds. Duran, who was portrayed by his defense as a paranoid schizophrenic, was also convicted of assaulting four Secret Service officers, unlawful possession of a rifle and a shotgun, damaging federal property, using a weapon during a crime of violence and transporting a firearm across state lines...
Tyson couldn't fight in prison, but that hasn't prevented people from fighting over him. In the week before Tyson's release, both King's people and the Muslims claimed that he would follow them. Playing off the famous plea--"No mas, no mas''--of Roberto Duran, King aide Mike Marley said, "No mosque, no mosque...
...gold there is incredible,'' former Peruvian Foreign Minister Jose de la Puente Rabdill told reporters last week. But no geological studies of the site have been done. Instead, the skirmishing may have had more to do with domestic politics, as both Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori and Ecuadorian President Sixto Duran Ballen used the long-standing border quarrel to bolster their own popularity...
Ecuador's Duran Ballen is also beleaguered. His free-market economic reforms have provoked protests, especially after the privatization of the national telephone company and a series of utility price hikes. Critics speculate that the President may be encouraging the border fighting in an effort to appease an army disgruntled by last year's 35% cut in the military budget. Defense Ministry spokesman Colonel Alberto Molina denies that soldiers are resentful: ``We've been cutting back for decades, and the armed forces would not provoke a confrontation just to be humiliated. We all know that Peru could blast...
...territory that is claimed by Ecuador. Two days later, Ecuadorian soldiers discovered a contingent of a dozen or so Peruvians in the same area. ``As soon as we ordered them to identify themselves, they opened fire. Since that day Peruvians have attacked nine Ecuadorian towns in the area,'' says Duran Ballen. Ecuador responded by mobilizing some 60,000 troops and accusing the Peruvians of attacking with helicopters that the U.S. had donated for drug-suppression programs...