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Sunday: In a Central League showdown, the first-place Yomiuri Giants beat the second-place Hiroshima Carp 3-1, making up for their worst ever defeat the day before (a 19-5 loss to the Carp). Wednesday: Orix Blue Wave superstar Ichiro Suzuki (left), who tends bonsai in his off-hours, broke a 43-year-old record with his 192nd hit of the season (George Sisler set the U.S. record of 257 in 1920). Friday: Suzuki went hitless as the Pacific Division's first-place Seibu Lions beat the second-place Orix 6-1, moving four games ahead. Rain...
...Bucknell Bisons charge into town this Saturday for a 1:00 p.m. showdown with new Crimson coach Tim Murphy and the rest of the rebuilt, retuned and reenginereed Harvard football team...
...this. Going into Thursday's showdown on crime, Democratic head counters thought they had a margin of one or two votes. Instead, nearly a fourth of all House Democrats balked. Most of them were rural lawmakers susceptible to the National Rifle Association, which opposed the bill's ban on 19 kinds of assault weapons and related models. Because the measure would also establish 50 new offenses punishable by the death penalty, which falls disproportionately on black defendants, 10 members of the Congressional Black Caucus voted against the bill...
...race controversy is vying with the issue of spousal abuse for attention. As in the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill showdown over sexual harassment, many black women feel caught between the pressure to stand loyally by a black man perceived to be under attack by the white establishment and the need to assert their rights as women. Last week, after black male leaders urged Garcetti not to pursue the death penalty against Simpson, Los Angeles attorney Gloria Allred wrote to the district attorney on behalf of the Women's Equal Rights Legal Defense and Education Fund: "Since you have chosen...
...saber rattling and Haitian shouts of defiance, there were still indications that a final showdown really is not imminent. The White House still hopes that Cedras and his crew can be pushed out by economic, diplomatic and psychological pressure. One means is to tighten further the embargo against Haiti. The Administration noted with pleasure that all commercial air service into and out of Haiti will end by August, when Air France will suspend its flights. Clinton signed an order for U.S. helicopters to patrol Haiti's border with the Dominican Republic, watching for gasoline shipments, which have been regularly smuggled...