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...Kiss your mall goodbye"? Yeah, right. It will happen as soon as the radio replaces the newspaper and the computer eliminates paper. GEORGE DAVIS Macon...
...partly inspired the "Rambo" character hopes to do the same for fugitive accused bomber Eric Robert Rudolph. Retired Green Beret colonel James "Bo" Gritz, the most decorated soldier in American history and a leader of the right-wing "patriot" movement, plans to enter the backwoods of Macon County, N.C., on August 15, hoping to bring Rudolph in safely...
...worth of burgers and fries from the Burger King in his hometown of Murphy, N.C. The trail had gone stone cold. And then on July 11, George Nordmann, 71, owner of the Better Way health-food store in downtown Andrews, only about 10 miles from Murphy, confessed to a Macon County sheriff's deputy that Rudolph had come to his house asking for food four days before. "Homer, you're not going to believe this," deputy Kenny Cope told his boss, Sheriff Homer Holbrooks, "but I've got a man at the house who had contact with Eric Rudolph...
Eric Robert Rudolph won't be found unless his pursuers get help from someone who knows the local mountains as well as the fugitive, say the residents of Macon County, N.C. "And right now, nobody seems to be in any hurry to help the feds," says TIME Atlanta bureau chief Sylvester Monroe. "The local people are not exactly warm to the federal agents or the media who have descended on the area and disrupted their way of life." A number of local people have even candidly told media representatives that, given the opportunity, they wouldn't turn Rudolph...
...Public Health Service launched its infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study, President Clinton issued the government's first formal apology to survivors and their families. "What was done cannot be undone, but we can end the silence," Clinton said at an emotionally-charged White House ceremony. The 399 men from Macon County, Alabama who signed up for "free health care" only to be denied treatment for syphilis were treated "like guinea pigs," remembered 94-year-old survivor Herman Shaw, one of eight study participants still living. When the secret experiment finally ended in 1972, 128 men had died from the disease...