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Shilts recounted a string of horror stories he collected while researching an upcoming book...
There are few more likely candidates for capital punishment than Charles Ng, 30. The former U.S. Marine was charged in 1985 in California with a string of 13 murders involving torture and sexual abuse. But for the past six years, state officials have been frustrated in their desire to try Ng -- and possibly send him to the gas chamber on conviction. Reason: he fled to Canada in 1985, where he was apprehended but has managed to avoid extradition. His last line of defense is based on the harsh punishment he might face in California for his alleged crimes...
Bush gave Saddam the Saturday deadline after a frustrating week of Soviet efforts to broker a deal that would be acceptable to both Iraq and the allies. Moscow had secured Baghdad's commitment to a supposedly "unconditional" pullout from Kuwait, but the agreement was accompanied by a string of conditions. Washington and its major partners advanced a number of reasons for rejecting the Soviet-mediated offer, ranging from simple distrust of Saddam to news of the scorched-earth policy in Kuwait. But the predominant reason was a feeling that delay was beginning to work against the allies. They were being...
...Sears also stumbled two years ago with McKids, a venture with McDonald's that ran a string of 47 stores featuring children's fashions and toys. The idea seemed sound, but the stores were badly organized and overpriced. Last week Sears shut the stores, though it will carry the clothes and toys in some Sears outlets...
...statement, issued in the name of the five-man Revolutionary Command Council, declared Iraq's "readiness to deal" with U.N. Security Council Resolution No. 660. That resolution, adopted the very day of the invasion, is the basic document calling on Iraq to get out of Kuwait. And the long string of conditions attached to the withdrawal that the U.N. had insisted be unconditional might well be an initial bid designed to be taken little more seriously than a bazaar merchant's opening price quotation...