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...coup in 1980 made him the first head of state who was not an "Americo-Liberian," the local term for descendants of the freed slaves from the U.S. who founded the country in 1822. Although Doe promptly executed many Americo-Liberians, Taylor returned to Monrovia to volunteer his services. He was appointed head of the General Services Administration, the government's purchasing agency. In 1983, after hearing that Doe was about to try him on charges of embezzling $900,000, he fled to the U.S. He was arrested near Boston and held for extradition but escaped from jail and found...
...looking Governor and in 1986 as North Carolina's other Senator. The tart-tongued Helms, on the other hand, has won three terms by pushing hot-button hard-right issues -- pornography, school prayer, busing -- among whites in more rural parts of the state. To have a shot at Helms, local experts say, Gantt will need to add at least 40% of the state's estimated 2.5 million white voters to his strong support among some 575,000 blacks...
...could be used for medical experiments. In recent years Kevorkian has fought hard for a patient's right to commit suicide and a doctor's right to help. Last fall he invented the easily replicable suicide machine using $45 worth of hardware and tried to advertise it in a local medical journal. When the editors refused, he peddled the story to the local newspapers and soon found himself on the Donahue show...
...Little Ducc" went on his first "mission," a drive-by shooting, as an observer when he was twelve. Freshly inducted into a local Crip gang, he drove in a sedan he describes as a GTA as casually as if he were saying GTO or MG, though it is police parlance for "grand theft auto" -- a stolen car. He is 14 now, in juvenile detention, and mainly remembers the noise. "A lot of yelling, some shooting, and then the police sirens." He never knew what prompted the attack. His "homeboys" had brought him along to test his mettle, and he acquitted...
Though Californians have approved small tax increases on a local level in recent years, the state faces a $3.6 billion budget shortfall. With state funds shrinking, many spending burdens have been passed down to localities, which in turn pass them along to new-home buyers. To offset the cost of sewage and street building, parks and schools, local governments began imposing "impact fees" of as much as $25,000 for a newly built home. So it was no less important that California voters also agreed last week to loosen the state spending cap and exclude certain expenditures from the limits...