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...request, was approved by the Senate last week, 59 to 0. The Senate also tacked on other provisions that would permit FBI agents to investigate campus bombings, make it a federal crime to assassinate, assault or kidnap a member of Congress, and permit a death penalty for a fatal bombing or the assassination of a Congressman...
...curb auto thefts, the New York legislature passed a law forbidding motorists to leave keys in the ignition locks of unattended cars. As a result, Chester Gorski of Rome, N.Y. has been ordered to pay $33,862 in damages because his stolen car was involved in a fatal collision. The plaintiff, whose wife was killed in the crash, had a persuasive witness-the car thief. Donald Smith, 18, who is now in jail as a youthful offender, testified that he downed 18 beers at a firemen's carnival, jumped into Gorski's car, found the key dangling from...
...Robert J. Valerie testified voluntarily for more than an hour before the Suffolk County Grand Jury impaneled to hear evidence in the fatal shooting of Boston Patrolman Schroeder today. Police roamed the corridors of the Suffolk County Superior Courthouse carrying shotguns...
Both use computers extensively in their GSAS work, and Popek is currently writing a thesis exploring computer science and its applications in medical information systems. He said that computer mistakes in vaccine classification, for example, are just as numerous as credit systems mistakes, but the results are often fatal...
...birdshot. Fired from modified carbines, pistols or even nightsticks, the bag unfolds like a spinning pancake when it leaves the weapon's muzzle at 110 m.p.h. It will knock down-or at least stun -a fleeing suspect or a rioter. But, claims the manufacturer, the impact is not fatal. A Chicago police official disagrees: "Anything is lethal if it's fired at close enough range. Who are they trying...