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...Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti's game plan was thrown into the air when a judge dissolved a 23-member grand jury that was considering whether there was enough evidence to try Simpson on murder charges. Superior Court Judge Cecil J. Mills, in response to an unusual request from Simpson's attorney, Robert Shapiro, concluded that some jurors may have been tainted by exposure to the deluge of publicity...
...flood of sometimes inaccurate leaks from police about bloody gloves and a ski mask was followed by a heavy round of appearances on public affairs shows by Garcetti. It's true that he objected to the decision of the Los Angeles city attorney to satisfy a media request for release of the taped call to 911 that Nicole Simpson made after an enraged O.J. broke into her house last year. Even so, Garcetti can't have been too sorry at the impression it made when the tape was played over and over again in public. "The prosecution...
...help in getting legislative changes that would allow the city of Hartford to issue bonds needed to pay for a new waste-treatment plant. Rostenkowski instructed his staff to draw up the necessary amendment. Just a day or two later, he came back to her with a request: to co-sponsor a controversial measure affecting Medicaid fee assignments for physicians. Though it would open her to political fire, Kennelly calculated that the damage would be sustainable and knew that she owed one to Rosty. "One of the reasons he was such a great chairman," she explains, "is that he found...
...Secretary William Perry on a weeklong tour through four of the republics of the former Soviet Union and interviewed dozens of military families for an investigative report on the epidemic of domestic violence in the services. The story, which ran three weeks ago, prompted Maine Senator William Cohen to request that the Pentagon report back to the Senate on its efforts to combat such abuse...
...Virginia and hired nonunion workers to replace them, the AFL-CIO traced the company's ownership to Marc Rich. He is a former commodities speculator who fled the U.S., pursued by a flock of indictments, and rules interests throughout Europe. For almost two years, at the U.S. federation's request, unions in 20 countries harassed and disrupted Rich's activities until, in mid-1992, he ended the West Virginia lockout...