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States are tightening skimpy federal rules that have been in place since 1991. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act requires companies to keep a list of people who request not to receive such calls, and gives consumers the right to sue telemarketers $500 for each violation. Last month a South Carolina man took AT&T to small-claims court for repeat calls, and was awarded...
Although Harvard had conferred with Cambridge police earlier in the year to prevent violence in the case of police action, Mayor Walter J. Sullivan said Harvard's request did not specify any tactics but "left all that...
...they were right all along ? that Dr. Sam Sheppard was the killer, not the bushy-haired intruder Sheppard claimed knocked him unconscious when he came to the aid of his screaming wife. (Sheppard died in 1970; his remains were exhumed for DNA samples in 1997 at his son's request.) But Sheppard?s son claims that the intruder was a very real window-washer, and calls the exhumation just another stall tactic by the prosecution. When poor Mrs. Sheppard is unearthed ? no date has yet been set ? what clues will her body yield? Not much, probably. She may help investigators...
...implementing the Wye land-for-peace accord. Negotiators from the two sides met Wednesday to finalize a timetable for completing Israeli withdrawal from the 13.1 percent of the West Bank envisaged by Wye, after Secretary of State Madeleine Albright postponed her visit to the region ? at Israel?s request. "Naturally the Palestinians were very unhappy about Albright?s decision, because they wanted her to come and get in the middle," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "While the Israelis want the U.S. to scale down its direct role in the peace process, the Palestinians need someone else...
...contents. Police questioned the unnamed recipient of the drugs, who was found in possession of a second bag of cocaine and admitted to having taken delivery of similar packages sent from Bogota, which he?d been paid to receive. Although the Army cleared Colonel Hiett of any wrongdoing, his request for a transfer was granted...