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...state judge has ordered a time-out in the bitter brawl between Alabama Republican Governor Guy Hunt and Democratic state attorney general Jimmy Evans. Judge Randall Thomas dropped a dozen theft charges against Hunt for allegedly diverting $200,000 in inaugural and campaign funds to his personal use in the late 1980s, ruling that the indictment came after a three-year state statute of limitations had run out. One ethics charge -- punishable by up to $10,000 and 10 years behind bars -- did beat the clock. On that one count, said the judge, Evans can proceed...
What a strange kind of hunt it became, this search not for spies, or thieves, or traitors, but for . . . aliens? All last week across Washington, and in scores of smaller seats of government in towns around the country, there came the confessions. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown admitted that he had not paid Social Security taxes for a maid who had worked for him for about five years. In between plotting his four-part peace plan for Bosnia, Secretary of State Warren Christopher said he hired a lawyer and an accountant to take a look at his records. The inquisition reportedly...
Unquestionably, though, the Lions are in the hunt. Whether they emerge as kings of the Ivy League jungle will be determined in the next month, but for one night against Harvard, at least, they seemed ready to roar...
...hunt down these objects, the workshop proposed the construction of six 2.5-m (98-in.) telescopes, three located in the northern and three in the southern hemisphere. Each would be equipped with advanced versions of the charge-coupled device, a kind of electronic camera, already being used by Tom Gehrels, a University of Arizona astronomer who heads one of three U.S. teams independently searching for asteroids. The CCDs, which record electronic images of celestial objects, would feed into computers that could speedily identify and track asteroids and comets against the background of fixed stars. "It's the right time...
...Susan Hunt, typist of Freidel's last book,said, "He was one of the nicest and kindest peoplearound. He really will be missed...