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...apparent good tidings, however, mask a host of troubles as the fall season gets under way. Fox has thrown a fresh scare into the other networks, stealing several major-market affiliates as well as CBS's Sunday-afternoon pro-football franchise. The number of alternatives, on both cable and broadcast stations, keeps growing, and the remote control has made them easier than ever to find. Indeed, the networks' recent ratings turnabout was due largely to special events like the Winter Olympics, and there's no guarantee the audience erosion won't resume this fall...
...dated Cowlings and bills herself as his friend. Her conversations with the authorities may well have resembled interviews she gave recently to TIME and other news outlets. According to Peace, Cowlings told her that Simpson was guilty of both murders. The murder weapon "sleeps with the fishes," i.e., + was thrown in a body of water. Peace claims Cowlings told her that on the Friday before the murder, O.J. had been "stalking" Goldman, whom he "hated with a passion." But Cowlings also allegedly said that when O.J. arrived at Nicole's residence on Sunday, June 12, "he didn't go there...
Towards the end of the war, a Bechtel subsidiary, Bechtel-McCone, started building bomber planes for the U.S. military. Afterwards, workers involved testified in court that Bechtel was guilty of war-profiteering, for adding fictitious overhead costs to the government's airplane bill. The charge was thrown out on a technicality...
...same time, he seemed to be stepping up his drug habit, including smoking the white pipe. A week after the Bop executions, he was seen staggering around while on assignment at a Mandela rally in Johannesburg. Later he crashed his car into a suburban house and was thrown in jail for 10 hours on suspicion of drunken driving. His superior at Reuter was furious at having to go to the police station to recover Carter's film of the Mandela event. Carter's girlfriend, Kathy Davidson, a schoolteacher, was even more upset. Drugs had become a growing issue in their...
...second only to Russia, according to a study released today. The Sentencing Project, a group that promotes alternative sentencing, reports that the incarceration rate here has reached an all-time high of 519 per 100,000 people here. And blacks are six times more likely than whites to be thrown in the slammer...