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1 'r: Ruby Midge oliceE admite igpiJ: '-T I'- iiinT" A turtle cd as a fcead FBI's violent crimes am! major ctTcnJers section, Kahoe was respor.sif'e far preparing critique of the FBI's perforpaiKi at Ruby Ridge. Such reports ace typically compiled after every to'ent encounter involving federal agents. A factual summary of the case notes that Kahoe first refused to turn over cer 1 tain documents to the U.S. attorney 's office in Idaho, prompting the Justice De be told a subordinate, Cue Evaas, that he had destroyed his copks of the report and lniKriKteJ Evans to do the same 3 anj to' dispose of a computer disk en which the report was stored'. report critidzed the FBI's con-j" dua of the case.
FBI sharpshooters killed Weaver's wife, Vicku "It was recognized at the time that the FBI had problems in the Weaver ease, Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric'-W. Sitar- chuk said. The report was dest rosed so that the defense ould not learn cf tfcostA Agent destroyed damaging report By Richard Kel The A mmMeJ Aru WASHINGTON A senior FBI official pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice Wednesday for destroying a report that criticized the FBI's role in a deadly 1992 shootout at the Idaho cabin of "white separatist Randal! Weaver, Michael Kahoe, who entered hit plea before U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina, agreed to cooperate with prosecutors investigating other FBI officials involved in the case and whether they were involved in a cover-up of the FBI's handling of the siege.
The highes-ranking of four suspended FBI officials still under imesiipuon is former FBI deputy director Larry Pons. Prosecutors said Kahoe destroyed the documents to keep them from attorneys representing Weaver, whose wife-and son were killed during a nine-day standoff with government agents at Weavers rural Idaho cabin in 1992. Weaver and a friend, Kev in Harris, were acquitted of charges that they killed a federal marshal dunng a shootout that led to the FBI siege Kahoe's plea was the latest episode in a series of woes far the FBI. On Tuesday, FBI director Louis Freeh disclosed he has opened a pair of internal investigations into whether the FBI leaked the name of security guard Richard Jewell as a suspect in the Olympic bombing. The Justice Department cleared Jewell last partment intervene The U.S.
attorney in Idaho needed all problems." Kahoe, a 25-year FBI veteran, faces FBI records relating to Ruby Ridge to help prepare its case. It also was required to provide them to the defense. Kahoe then refused to turn over the after-action critique to the Justice Department, the report stated. After that, JL Michael Kahoe, a senior FBI official, xuitty to obstruction of justice in -tie fhiby Ridge cat on Wedneeday. Ka Ho admitted he destroyed a report 'criticizing ttte FBF handling of the deadly J992 siege at the Idaho retreat of white separatist Randy Weaver.
up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine in connection ith his felony pies. 1 VS. Attorney Mike Stiles said Kahoe is cooperating -with the government's in- vestigation but would not elaborate. Stiff sentence Halloween prank ends in traffic death China activist for iDissiderit jailed for 1 1 years "His actions were not criminal. This is so inconceivable." Wang Lingyun, Wang Dan's mother deaths Wednesday morning A car wreck on exhibit in front of the school was hauled away, and the re-enactment was canceled.
The victims, all sophom*ores, had decided to play a homecoming prank on a freshman, assistant principal Athena Vachtsevanos said. They drove to the. girl's house and were trashing the yard with toilet paper when the owner came outside and the girls sped away, police said. The girl's parents followed in a pickup truck to try to get the car's license number, Cobb County police spokesman Robert Quigley said. The couple said they had slowed down and were trailing at a distance when they spotted the wreck.
Killed were Jadie Burch, Ra-chael Ford and Leslie Anne' Caron.all 15. By Russ Bynum The Astotiaied Press MARIETTA. Ga. Three teen-age girls were killed early Wednesday when their car slammed into a tree as they fled from a friend's house where they had been littering the yard ith toilet paper. Three others were injured, one critically.
The accident happened shortly after midnight as the friend's parents chased after them in a pickup truck. The crash came as students at Sprayberry High School were preparing a safe-driving campaign that would have involved the re-enactment of a fatal accident scene today, complete with a mock funeral 'and a Grim Reaper pulling students from classes Many of the school's 2,000 students, hugged, prayed and wept as 'they learned of the him Wednesday of plotting to By Charles HutzJer The Asfatiifd Prets J. BEIJING' The trial lasted fpvr.hours, and the verdict was years in prison for Wang Dan, one of the last active leader's of the 1989 Tiananmen iSquare democracy movement. I Wednesday's swift Judgrnertt; China's Communist leaders signaled their re-solve to silence critics. But they also revealed worries about anti-government sentiment and the "potent memories of the military iassault that crushed the 1989 demonstrations.
pThe' student movement was IsVcS jbig thing that nobody can Torget it," Said a man standing outside the courthouse where 1 1 "'V ij I if it I Le i fcj a MmMtor 1 mM 1 mJi iliinAift was tried. "Just because we tallf about openly doesn't jdonfcl fmeati we dont care, said the subvert the government. Wang tried "to mold public opinion to subvert the government. He instigated people by saying that 'it is time to turn our words into the state-run Xinhua News Agency said in announcing the verdict. The trial in Beijing Intermedi- 1 ate People's Court took place amid the usual secrecy and unusually heavy police presence.
No foreign reporters or(. observers were allowed to attend," despite requests by the United States and; other governments. Police cordoned off the courthouse in western Beijing, stringing up white rope to keep foreign reporters and curious locals away. Dozens of uniformed and plainclothes police patrolled the area. Officers confiscated videotapes from at least two foreign cameramen and detained for seven hours a three-man crew from ABC television.
An Associated Press reporter was prevented from reading a notice board outside the court, forced into a taxi and threatened with expulsion if he returned. Police shooed reporters away from Wang's family home. actions were not criminal," his mother, Wang Lingyun, being conducted, to prevent in- juries and the Consumer Product Safety Commission i -r J.C. Penney recalling flammable sweaters WASHINGTON j.C. Penney Co.
is recalling 26,240 chenille sweaters that can burn as fast as a newspaper if they cteh The velvety-textured sweaters failed a federal fiammability regulation, prompting the uhtaryj recall, the U.S.1 Consumer Product' Safety Commission said Wednesday. No injuries have been reported. 5 Affected sweaters were sold packaged in ne canaics, plastic: and purple cardboard, 1 were sold in small gift, specialty man, who retused to be For Wang symbolized that movement. As a Beijing Uni-'versity student, he led marches called for a student union Tree "of government control. After fhe c.racHdQyyn.
the government put him atop its mostwanted list, flashing his picture on TV served'- 3' years in prison only: to emerge Qver months before was tjfkfrn away by police in kiay- 995-t criticized the artyliri published abroad, ihet' wltK other activists and peti-ionhe' gdvefnmenf (foh de-nvptrcy. -tf writings meetings were used as evidence to convkt arid drug stores New Jersey, 4 New YorK and Connecticut and 1 VINCENT YU, The Associated Press Amidst posters of Chinese dissident Wang Dan, a protester buries his head In his arms outside the offices of the Xinhua News Agency, China's de facto embassy in Hong Kong, on Wednesday. In a secretive trial lasting less than four hours, China convicted the leader of the 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy protests of trying to overthrow the Communist government. said in a telephonl interview! A museum researcher, Wang "This is so inconceivable." defended her son in court "as ine by the discount store Caldor 1 during the 1995 and :1 996 'Hal loween seasons. For more infor- 4 inv J.C.
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JACKSONVltLE, Ra. A 3 weightlifter tost his grip as he 3 Exp erts: Internet intimacy made sex killing easier was lifting a-loSpound barbell and the weight fell, on his throat; severing hisl windpipe. Cliff Casteel wnderwent 90 4.. By Alex said Dr. Alvin Cooper, director of 4 The Assotiated Press the Sah Jose Marital and Xexiial- minutes of surgery to rejoin the 5 two-inch gap in his windpipe Tuesday, and by Wednesday he was talking.
Lopatka died accidentally when he gradually tightened a rope around her neck as they were having intercourse, The Lenoir, N.C, News-Topic reported "Wednesday. '4 Glass was charged with mur der last week afte Lopatka's body was fourid ina shallow "Most people "would be t-W-)- 4 1" "i- 'V- JjttALTItyQRJE Why would a ity Centre jn' California and the SwjTnian-Bgreeno meet a man who author of a column on sexuality iraphically. told 'hef: how' he distributed on the World Wide, rpfahne: taS sexaaliy torture nd Web.4 'V 13heff 43 V. "Sexualpredators who k'ftow already: exi Jhese' '-ites to pull-in Ranged -100 electronic messages people with specific, sex inter- printed on the store price tags and on customer receipts. The sweaters also were sold, in the 1 996 Christmas catalogue; as tot number 542-097 1: J.C.
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recall WASHINGTON A New York company is recalling about 47,100 hand-shaped Hal- loween candles that generate flames a high as eight. inches. dead, said Kenneth Koster, his! surgeon at Baptist Medical Cen ter. "By all rights he should 4 have turned blue and gone va'-the Internet might have some- ests," Cooper said. "You don't r.
grave behind his mobile home down in five minutes." rience, all the women who 'are having these masoch*st cravings were themselves abused sexually; during childhood," Berlin said. "The feelings of sexual excite-'. -ment can become confused with' 1' 1 The Internet, he said, merely, provided a tragically convenient forum for her to meet someone looking to sexually abuse another person. "People: will disclose' some, pretty intimate things on e-mail and feel safe about that, and it can progress to a point where nor- -mal defenses are down," said Bonnie Raindrop, co-owner of. Doubleclick an on-' line publishing firm where Lo- patka maintained three World -Wide Web pages for a business she ran from her Jhing to do with- it, experts on cy- have any sense of whether the: North Carolina authorities ISerp'acePcbmmunication said person has any contact with real-also confirmed that e-mail.
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Earlier this month, she Lopatka may have suffered agreed lo meet him in North Car-' from sexual masochism, said olina, even though he had said in 'Fred Berlin, founder of the Johns one of his e-mail messages that he Hopkins Sexual Disorder Clinic. planned to kill her; "We're not sure what causes it, Glass, 45, told investigators but certainlyin my clinical expe- Qtilookingfor victims tTJteXsftineThihg- rabouOhV 'ay jrommunication: on the Net vrorlcs that fosters a sense of intt-: securityt-cnnection. You jeallyJfeeLybu. know the person," hand's five fingers.The recall is From wire reports i Lottery Pick3i 8-4-6 flck 4: 7-9-9-5 Tri-State Megabuck Turlington Ifrte jprtg James M. Carey, Publish Edwird K.
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