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AP Online, Friday, March 06, 1998 at 18:02
Friday March 6 4:05 PM EST
Cablecar Lawyer Beaten to Death in Italy
By Abigail Levene
ROME (Reuters) - A lawyer acting for a U.S. Marine linked with last month's Italian cable car tragedy was beaten to death
with a hammer Friday, police said.
Francesca Trombino received blows to the head and body from a man thought to be aged around 50 using a hammer wrapped
in a newspaper, a spokesman for the Carabinieri paramilitary police in Pordenone in northeast Italy told Reuters. Police were
questioning a man.
"We don't know if the aggression was linked with her role (in defending the U.S. Marine)," the spokesman said. "It could be a
coincidence that she is the lawyer for this man."
Trombino, 43, was rushed to a hospital in the town of Pordenone, which is about 80 km (50 miles) southeast of Cavalese,
where the cable car accident took 20 lives on February 3, and about 10 km (six miles) from Aviano airbase, from which the
U.S. Marine aircraft responsible had flown.
She was transferred to a larger hospital in the northeastern city of Udine but hospital sources said there she died several hours
after the attack.
Italian news agency ANSA said Trombino was defending U.S. colonel Richard Muegge, commander of the four-man crew of
a U.S. warplane which slashed cable car wires in northeastern Italy and sent a cabin plunging down a mountainside, killing all
the people in it.
Friday, March 6, 1998
Gunman Kills 4, Self in Connecticut
NEWINGTON, Conn. (AP) - A state lottery accountant fatally shot
three supervisors and the lottery chief today, then shot himself to
death as police closed in. Dozens of terrified workers fled into
the nearby woods. The gunman, Matthew Beck, 35, an eight-year
lottery employee, worked for about a half-hour before opening fire.
He had been on medical leave for job-related stress since October.
Eiffel Tower's Clock Displays 666
PARIS (AP) - The Eiffel Tower, built as a monument to industrial
progress, had a more apocalyptic look today when its giant digital
clock counting down the days to the year 2000 displayed 666. The
giant clock has provoked complaints from Parisians who find it
gaudy or obtrusive, as residents originally thought about the tower
itself when it was built in 1889. But tourists didn't seem deterred
by the number and were braving the rain and cold to see Paris's
quintessential site.
Compaq: Bad Sales Wiped Out Profits
NEW YORK (AP) - Compaq Computer, the largest maker of personal
computers, warned today that flat PC sales and price wars would
wipe out its profits in the first quarter. The warning came two
days after Intel Corp. said that its quarterly results also would
fall below expectations. Compaq's flat revenues and break-even
earnings were below expectations of most Wall Street analysts.
Compaq's trouble illuminates why Intel's slow sales. PC makers are
being forced to sell off existing stocks of computers instead of
buying chips for new ones.
From Clinton/lewinsky story:
In another development, a federal judge denied a motion by news organizations to open up records regarding any claim of
executive privilege by Clinton in the case, sources familiar with the issue said.
They said the denial, contained in an order sealed by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Norma Holloway Johnson, was made at
least partially on the grounds that the issue was moot because no formal claim of privilege had yet been made.
Starr's office had no objection to opening up the proceedings. The White House was due to respond next week, but now
would not make a filing because of the judge's decision, sources said.
Separately, conservative author William Bennett disagreed with evangelist Billy Graham Friday for saying he would forgive
Clinton if he did anything immoral because of the frailty of human nature and because "the ladies just go wild over him."
Bennett, who is the author of books about morality and the brother of Clinton lawyer Robert Bennett, said the famed Protestant
preacher was offering Clinton "cheap grace."
"Billy Graham forgives him for what? What has the president admitted to doing? Billy Graham forgives him for something the
president has denied in his deposition he has ever done," Bennett said in an NBC "Today" show interview.
"It seems to me forgiveness usually follows admission, apology; in this case, some degree of repentance," he said. "We've had
none of this from the president. Or has the president told Billy Graham something he hasn't told the rest of us? I just don't think
it makes sense." |
